cyrus in isaiah 44

Thus, this would mean that Yahweh, through Isaiah, could predict a future event over 150 years in advance. A passage in Isaiah 44 also discusses Cyrus the Great—and this is where the history gets exciting. And to the temple - Though now desolate and in ruins, yet it shall be reconstructed, and its foundation shall be firmly laid. 25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. Isaiah 44 is the forty-fourth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. When God pardons sin, he blots out, he dispels this cloud, this thick cloud, so that the way to heaven is open again. . Sometime around the year 700 BC, the prophet Isaiah gave an amazing prophecy, in which he stated that God would use someone named Cyrus to deliver His people from captivity. (t) Xenophon. According to the Jewish Talmud, Isaiah prophesied into Manasseh’s reign and was  martyred when Manasseh ordered him sawn in half. I am not of the lost 10 tribes, I’m a Gentile, but saved by grace and brought into the household of God. 46, note 4 (also compare Spiegel's Geschichte der Entzifferung der Keil-schrift, im "Ausland," 1865, p. In Isaiah 46:11, God speaks of “calling a ravenous bird from the east,” probably a reference to the battle flag of Cyrus. I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. Nine years later he conquered the Medes, thus unifying the kingdoms of the Medes and the … Yet Isaiah 44:28 says,) “ . The original text was written in Hebrew language. They would see, just as God had prophesied their captivity in Babylon, that God was the one true God, the Lord who could name His human instruments 150 years into the future. The Vulgate, and the Septuagint renders this as meaning God, and not Cyrus, and doubtless this is the true construction. ye are even my witnesses. Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary28. That saith of Cyrus — Whom God here mentions by his proper name, two hundred years before he was born, that this might be an undeniable evidence of the exactness of God’s foreknowledge, and a convincing argument to conclude this dispute between God and idols. Charles C. Torrey, The Second Isaiah (New York: Scribner's, 1928) 3–52; idem, “Isaiah 41,” HTR 44 (1951) 121–36; James D. Smart, History and Theology in Second Isaiah: A Commentary on Isaiah 35, 40–66 (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1964) 115–34; Jurgen van Oorschot, Von Babel zum Zion (New York: de Gruyter, 1993) 88. 44:28 Cyrus - Whom God here mentions by his proper name, two hundred years before he was born, that this might be an undeniable evidence of the exactness of God's fore - knowledge, and a convincing argument to conclude this dispute between God and idols. And Yeshua said to him, “Why do you call me good? This is one of the numerous instances in the Bible, in which God claims control and jurisdiction even over pagan princes and monarchs, and in which he says that their plans are under his direction, and made subservient to his will. I’m a teacher and pastor. Our Lord does not decline the appellation “good.” He repels it only in the superficial sense of the questioner, who regarded Him merely as a “good Rabbi.”….basically, this man was too spiritually blind to even recognize Jesus is God (because Jesus can see the heart) and so Jesus responds to this kid..and he still didn’t get comprehend the great “I AM” of creation stood before him…how sad to know he saw His savior and didn’t even recognize Him. To get what Isaiah 44:28 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity. In Isaiah 44:26 the predicates become special prophecies, and hence their outward limits are also defined. In verse 28 Cyrus, the King of … He was the one true God. Cyrus, as a shepherd, gathered the Hebrew flock together, and protected them from the wolves of Chaldaic and Persian governors: he led them to green pastures in Judea and Galilee. The emphasis is on the “why.” “Dost thou know what thou meanest, when thou givest Me this appellation?” If we combine the question and rejoinder as given by St Matthew and St Luke it would seem to have run, Why askest thou Me about the good? Temp. Yet, you the false prophets of the Lost 10 tribes proclaim Jesus is God or that he was the God of the Old Testament!!!!!!! I am the LORD, and there is none else. One of the truly astounding prophecies of the Bible is found in the last verse of Isaiah 44, together with 45:1ff, (an unfortunate chapter break). For an account of his character and reign, see the notes at Isaiah 41:2, where I have anticipated all that is needful to be said here.He is my shepherd - A shepherd is one who leads and guides a flock, and then the word denotes, by a natural and easy metaphor, a ruler, or leader of a people. (x) Xenophon, Cyropaedia, l. 8. sect. Cyrus himself compares a king to a shepherd, and observes a likeness between them (x): and shall perform all my pleasure; concerning the deliverance of the Jews from Babylon, and the encouragement of them to go up to their own land, and rebuild their city and temple; and many other things which he did, agreeably to the secret will of God, though he knew it not; and what he did he did not do in obedience to his will, but as overruled by the power and providence of God: even saying to Jerusalem, thou shalt be built; these are not the words of the Lord, as before, but of Cyrus, giving orders that Jerusalem should be built: and to the temple, thy foundation shall be laid; with great propriety this is said, since only the foundation was laid in his time; the Jews being discouraged and hindered by their enemies from going on with the building in his reign, until the times of Darius, king of Persia. Yes, Vaiay seems angry. Wesley's Notes for Isaiah 44:28. I. It was one of the things which God would do, to say to Jerusalem that it should be rebuilt.And to the temple - Though now desolate and in ruins, yet it shall be reconstructed, and its foundation shall be firmly laid. צוּלה (from צוּל equals צלל, to whiz or whirl) refers to the Euphrates, just as metsūlâh in Job 41:23; Zechariah 10:11, does to the Nile; נתרריה is used in the same sense as the Homeric ̓Ωοκεάνοιο ῥέεθρα. xv 3, 6). These two themes, the uniqueness of God, and the fact that He alone can pre-declare history, thus occur both before and after the naming of Cyrus, which is at the end of chapter 44 and the beginning of chapter 45. Cyrus—my shepherd. Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThat saith of Cyrus, he is my shepherd,.... Or Coresh, as his name in the Hebrew language is; and in the Persian tongue signifies the "sun"; from whence he had his name, as Ctesias (q) and Plutarch (r) say; to which the Hebrew word "cheres", which signifies the "sun", has some affinity; though Joseph Scaliger (s) would have the name of Cyrus to signify "food" in the Persian language, and which answers to his character as a shepherd. We see its significance in the way it is set off by similar beginning and ending hymns calling on the heavens themselves to praise God for this marvelous work (44:23: 45:8). yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words. Isaiah 44:28. In this passage we have the report of the direct prediction that the LORD called Cyrus to be His servant to deliver His people Israel, in order that all might know that the LORD is God. But in the complex view of the prophet, the possibility of the conqueror's crossing involved the possibility or the exiles' departing from the prison of the imperial city, which was surrounded by a natural and artificial line of waters (Isaiah 11:15). (q) Excerpta, p. 648. The Scriptures do not tell us this, but they do tell us that Manasseh “filled Jerusalem with innocent blood” (II Kings 24:4), and Hebrews 11:37 says of the people of faith, “They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword.”  Perhaps that was indeed a reference to Isaiah. ((u) Antiqu. God's word is instantaneously efficient in accomplishing His will. Earlier in Isaiah 44, there’s an extended discussion of the folly of idolatry, preceded by this: 6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. It was one of the things which God would do, to say to Jerusalem that it should be rebuilt. He is my shepherd — Him will I set up to be the shepherd of my people, to rescue them from wolves or tyrants, to gather them together, to rule them gently, and to provide comfortably for them. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: He alone can declare beforehand what He is going to do, Isaiah’s Amazing Cyrus Prophecy — “Not for Price nor Reward”, Isaiah’s Amazing Cyrus Prophecy — The One True God Against “the gods”. It was indeed under the direction of Cyrus that the city of Jerusalem was rebuilt, and the temple reconstructed Ezra 1:1; but still it was to be traced to God, who raised him up for this purpose. and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them. In Isaiah 44:24, Jehovah says that He alone created, He spread abroad the earth “by myself”. He is my shepherd; him will I set up to be the shepherd of my people, to rescue them from wolves or tyrants, to gather them together, to rule them gently, and to provide comfortably for them. Isaiah 44. . None but God himself, or he whom God inspired, could have mentioned so long before, the name of him who should deliver the Jewish people from bondage; and if this was delivered, therefore, by Isaiah, it proves that he was under divine inspiration. and of the temple, “Let its foundations be laid.”’. We may not worship idols of wood and stone, of gold and silver. (But first understand that Isaiah lived in the 7th and 8th centuries BC. This major passage stands at the midpoint of Second Isaiah. Isaiah 44:28 “It is I who says of Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd!And he will perform all My desire.’And he declares of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built,’And of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’” Critical to this section is the knowledge of the LORD, both from the predictive side that He can prophesy, and from the effective side, that He does this that people might know that He is the LORD. Let’s think about when this passage above was written, since it was written by Isaiah. This one isn’t so much about the fulfillment but just to emphasise why this prophecy was given. The word 'my' implies, that he was under the direction of God, and was employed in his service.And shall perform all my pleasure - In destroying the city and kingdom of Babylon; in delivering the Jewish captives; and in rebuilding Jerusalem, and the temple.Even saying to Jerusalem - That is, I say to Jerusalem. It’s poetry. He is several times mentioned elsewhere in the Old Testament 2 Chronicles 26:22-23; Ezra 1:1-2, Ezra 1:7; Ezra 3:7; Ezra 4:3; Ezra 5:13, Ezra 5:17; Daniel 1:21; Daniel 6:28; Daniel 10:1. Yet, the Bible very clearly states (John 1, Colossians 1, Hebrews 1) that Jesus is the Creator. That was nearly 100 years before the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem. 413).). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary44:21-28 Return unto me. Series Summary:  Isaiah’s Amazing Cyrus Prophecy. Then, He said this: 4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? According to the historian Herodotus (The Histories i.46), Cyrus was the son of Cambyses I. Then, He says: 18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. The section draws out all the implications of this truth on several levels. Later, in verse 25, God says He will bring one from the north and from the east. It has to do with Cyrus, king of Persia. 'anointed one') and he is the only non-Jewish figure in the Bible to be called so. (x) Xenophon, Cyropaedia, l. 8. sect. This very same section of Scripture in Isaiah about which the post was written refutes the error he is teaching. The Cyrus prophecy meant one thing to believers in Isaiah’s time — it assured them God did indeed have a plan (even if details were obscure). Geneva Study BibleThat saith of {f} Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and he shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. 2. 5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: I am the LORD, and there is none else. Isaiah 45:13 "I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my … I’ve been writing on this prophecy for a couple of weeks (and the series of articles is already longer than I’d planned), but I’d like to take time for two more articles. in Isaiah 44:28. ( Log Out /  I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me. See Ezra 1:1. He died in 680 BC under the rule of King Manasseh of Judea. Cyropaedia, l. 1. sect. That last verse, of course, is cited in Philippians 2:11 and applied to Jesus, which would be impossible if Jesus were not God the Son. In Isaiah 44:28, God gave the name of Cyrus. 1. Since Jesus clearly created all things (John 1:3, etc), either Jesus is the Jehovah who created “by Himself” or Jehovah lied. ( Log Out /  False propets hate the words that came out of the mouth of the one true God, YeHoVaH!!!!!!! Matthew Poole's Commentary Cyrus, whom God here designeth by his proper name two hundred years before he was born, that this might be an undeniable evidence of the certainty and exactness of God’s foreknowledge, and a convincing argument, and so most fit to conclude this dispute between God and idols. Gronov. — Cyropæd., lib. Xenophon tells us, that Cyrus used to compare kings in general, and himself in particular, to a shepherd. ex Trogo l. 1. c. 5. I thought it would be good, now that I’ve looked at different aspects of the prophecy, spread over several chapters, to show the actual Scriptures that show clearly that this was God’s purpose for the prophecy. k'ur'us.khsâya thiya.hakhâmanisiya, i.e., I am Kuru the king of the Achaemenides. It is the greatest honour of the greatest men, to be employed as instruments of the Divine favour to his people. Cyrus, It’s got too many words. 45 “This is what the Lord says to his anointed, Let her be built; Let thy foundations be laid. Nothing they have said in the past can explain the present, and nothing they say now is anything but a vague rehash of what has already happened. However, much of Isaiah’s ministry was in the reign of Ahaz (the father of Hezekiah), who was king when Isaiah gave the famous prophecy of our Lord’s virgin birth (Isaiah 7:14). 1. He also makes reference in verse 5 to “the ends of the earth,” perhaps a reference to one of the titles Cyrus used. 23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. (f) To assure them of their deliverance he names the person by whom it would be, more than a hundred years before he was born. English Version is more graphic. I’ll use colour coding, red for statements of God’s uniqueness, and blue for statements of His telling things in advance. The name of Cyrus (כורשׁ kôresh; Greek Κῦrος Kuros) the Greek writers say, means 'the sun.' In things wherein men serve themselves, and look no further, God makes them do all his pleasure. This is far more probable than that the author of these prophetic words, who only speaks of himself in a roundabout manner even in Isaiah 40:6, should here refer directly to himself (according to Isaiah 20:3). The Lord honours him with the title and character of his "shepherd", who was to lead his flock, the people of Israel, out of the Babylonish captivity, and guide them into their own land. Benson CommentaryIsaiah 44:28. And his enemies will find their counsels turned into foolishness, and themselves taken in their craftiness. See Ezra 1:1. My shepherd.—As guiding the flock of Jehovah, each to their own pasture. That saith of Cyrus — Whom God here mentions by his proper name, two hundred years before he was born, that this might be an undeniable evidence of the exactness of God’s foreknowledge, and a convincing argument to conclude this dispute between God and idols. 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. Isaiah 44:28 That saith of Cyrus, He is My shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built: and to the temple: Thy foundation shall be laid. This would seem to prove that Yahweh could predict the future, something that the pagan gods could not do. This prophecy was both immediately preceded and followed by statements that, unlike God, idols could not pre-declare history. As I said in the first article in this series, the refutation of idolatry was particularly relevant to Judah. None is good save One, God. and shall perform all my pleasure; concerning the deliverance of the Jews from Babylon, and the encouragement of them to go up to their own land, and rebuild their city and temple; and many other things which he did, agreeably to the secret will of God, though he knew it not; and what he did he did not do in obedience to his will, but as overruled by the power and providence of God: even saying to Jerusalem, thou shalt be built; these are not the words of the Lord, as before, but of Cyrus, giving orders that Jerusalem should be built: and to the temple, thy foundation shall be laid; with great propriety this is said, since only the foundation was laid in his time; the Jews being discouraged and hindered by their enemies from going on with the building in his reign, until the times of Darius, king of Persia. Isaiah 45:1. Who is saying of Cyrus, My shepherd, And all my delight He doth perfect, So as to say of Jerusalem, Thou art built, And of the temple, Thou art founded. We agree with John Oswalt, who notes that Isaiah’s prediction of King Cyrus is the culmination of Isaiah chapters 41-44: The centerpiece of the whole argument against the idols is that they cannot declare the future. This is the passage which is said by Josephus to have induced Cyrus to send back the Jews to their native land: "Accordingly, when Cyrus read this, and admired the divine power, an earnest desire and ambition seized upon him to fulfil what was so written" (Jos. The father of this illustrious person was Cambyses, king of Persia; his mother's name was Mandane, daughter of Astyages, king of Media (t). Nor does He expect us to figure out precise details He has not made precisely clear to us in Biblical prophecies yet unfulfilled. The dates between Isaiah and Cyrus DO NOT match up. On the identity of Murghb and Pasargadae, see Spiegel, Keil-inschriften, pp. No one is good except God ALONE. The name here is given to Cyrus because God would employ him to conduct his people again to their own land. He didn’t intend Jews in the seventh century BC to figure out who Cyrus was, or the rest of it. The phrase 'to Jerusalem,' and 'to the temple,' should be rendered 'of,' in accordance with a common signification of the preposition ל (l), and as it is rendered in the former part of the verse when speaking of Cyrus (compare Genesis 20:13; Judges 9:54). Such is the Lord Messiah to his people, as described by Ezekiel 34. Ed. The expression calls to mind the drying up of the Red Sea (Isaiah 51:10; Isaiah 43:16); but here it relates to something future, according to Isaiah 42:15; Isaiah 50:2 -namely, to the drying up of the Euphrates, which Cyrus turned into the enlarged basin of Sepharvaim, so that the water sank to the depth of a single foot, and men could "go through on foot" (Herod. yea, there is no God; I know not any. and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. In some of the phrases it seems God is confirming, and will do what His servant wants to do, and in some phrases, it seems that God's servant is carrying out God's plans. But God not only has done so in the past, he does … The Cyrus found in verse 28 is seen as none other than Cyrus the Great, the ruler of Persia that conquered Babylon 150 years after the time of Isaiah. i. 26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? It was indeed under the direction of Cyrus that the city of Jerusalem was rebuilt, and the temple reconstructed Ezra 1:1; but still it was to be traced to God, who raised him up for this purpose. Victor Ludlow wrote this about Isaiah 44:8 where the Lord says: “It is I who says to Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd! 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: It’s possible that there are other prophecies in this section of Isaiah with direct reference to Cyrus, which I’ve overlooked. who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I please; he will say of Jerusalem, “Let it be rebuilt,” and of the temple, “Let its foundations be laid.”’ who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd and will accomplish all that I please; he will say of Jerusalem, “Let it be rebuilt,” and of the temple, “Let All my pleasure; all that I command him to do, even to give leave and order for the rebuilding of the city and temple of Jerusalem, as it here follows. ( Log Out /  The name comes from the Persian khorschid, "the sun"; kings often taking their names from the gods; the sun was worshipped as a god in Persia. Let’s look at them. That this passage was seen by Cyrus is the testimony of Josephus, and is morally certain from the nature of the case, since, otherwise, it is incredible that he should have aided the Jews in returning to their own land, and in rebuilding their city and temple (see the Introduction, Section 2). Yikes…Vaiay, you seem very angry. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts." He is mentioned by him only in one other place expressly by name Isaiah 45:1. Our transgressions and our sins are as a thick cloud between heaven and earth: sins separate between us and God; they threaten a storm of wrath. It’s still relevant today. Here in Isaiah 44: is a prophecy that highlights God's omniscience, ** (His all-knowing power) it is one of the most amazing prophecies found anywhere in the Old Testament.. Because of his ministry during the time of Hezekiah, who was a godly king, Isaiah is perhaps most often connected in people’s minds with Hezekiah. 22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. Is there a God beside me? 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. and why callest thou Me good? 1. At the heart of this oracle is the mention of Cyrus by name. He began his reign about 550 b.c., and this prophecy was therefore delivered not far from a hundred and fifty years before he ascended the throne. ( Log Out /  There is a marble-block, for example, in the Murghab valley, not far from the mausoleum of Cyrus, which contained the golden coffin with the body of the king (see Strabo, xv 3, 7); and on this we find an inscription that we also meet with elsewhere, viz., adam. He is first intr… [44.28] Who says of Cyrus, "He is My shepherd, And he shall perform all My pleasure, saying to Jerusalem, "You shall be built," and to the temple, "Your foundation shall be … (r) In Vita Artaxerxis, (s) Emendat. 8. In verse 2, God says He will raise up a deliverer from the east, and Persia is east of Babylon. that there is none beside me. saying—rather, "and that saith"; construed with God, not with Cyrus. 6. I’m not a prophet at all, false or otherwise. and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them. 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