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Isa 45:1 — Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

Phrase from KJV (Help)		Correlating Verses

to his	Isa 13:3; Isa 44:28; 1Ki 19:15; Jer 27:6
whose	Isa 41:13; Isa 42:6; Psa 73:23
holden	or, strengthened. Eze 30:21-24
to subdue	Isa 41:2,25; Ezr 1:1; Jer 50:3,35; Jer 51:11,20-24; Dan 5:6,28-30; Dan 7:5; Dan 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. Nah 2:6

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