Isaiah 45:1-2

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Thus said Jehovah to his Messiah, to Cyrus whom I held by his right hand to bring down nations before him; and I will loosen the loins of kings to open before him the doors; and the gates shall not be shut ² I will go before thee, and I will make straight the circles: I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and I will cut down the bars of iron:

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Isaiah 45:1 God calls Cyrus for his church's sake.
Isaiah 45:5 By his omnipotency he challenges obedience.
Isaiah 45:20 He convinces the idols of vanity by his saving power.

to his.
Isaiah 13:3; Isaiah 44:28; 1 Kings 19:15; Jeremiah 27:6
whose.
Isaiah 41:13; Isaiah 42:6; Psalms 73:23
holden. or, strengthened.
Ezekiel 30:21-24
to subdue.
Isaiah 41:2; Isaiah 41:25; Ezra 1:1; Jeremiah 50:3; Jeremiah 50:35; Jeremiah 51:11; Jeremiah 51:20-24; Daniel 5:6; Daniel 5:28-30; Daniel 7:5; Daniel 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.
Nahum 2:6