Isaiah 45:1 (KJV)
Thus saiththe LORDto his anointedto Cyruswhose right handI have holdento subdue nations beforehim and I will loosethe loinsof kingsto open beforehim the two leaved gatesand the gatesshall not be shut
Cross-references
to his. Isa 13:3 Isa 44:28 1Ki 19:15 Jer 27:6
whose. Isa 41:13 Isa 42:6 Ps 73:23
holden. or, strengthened. Eze 30:21-24
to subdue. Isa 41:2 Isa 41:25 Ezr 1:1 Jer 50:3 Jer 50:35 Jer 51:11 Jer 51:20-24 Da 5:6 Da 5:28-30 Da 7:5 Da 8:3
to open.All the streets of Babylon, leading on each side to the river, were secured by two leaved brazen gates, and these were providentially left open when Cyrus's forces entered the city in the night, through the channel of the river, in the general disorder occasioned by the great feast which was then celebrated; otherwise, says Herodotus, the Persians would have been shut up in the bed of the river, as in a net, and all destroyed. The gates of the palace were also imprudently opened to ascertain the occasion of the tumult; when the two parties under Gobrias and Gadatas rushed in, got possession of the palace, and slew the king. Na 2:6
20 He convinces the idols of vanity by his saving power.
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