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Biblical Commentary Isaiah 45:1-7 EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: The Jewish people experienced two major exiles. The first exile was the Assyrian Exile (beginning in 722 B.C.), where Assyria forced the ten northern tribes into exile in Assyria.
Oct 22, 2023 · While the immediate lesson is 45:1-7, the passage builds on 44:24-28 in which Cyrus is first mentioned. The invocation of Cyrus as God’s shepherd (44:28) and anointed one (45:1) parallels the figure of the suffering servant upon whom God’s Spirit rests (Isaiah 42:1-9; 52:13-53:12).
In Isaiah 45:7 we are led by the context to understand by darkness and evil the penal judgments, through which light and peace, or salvation, break forth for the people of God and the nations generally. But as the prophecy concerning Cyrus closes with this self-assertion of Jehovah, it is unquestionably a natural supposition that there is also ...
Oct 19, 2014 · This passage stands in the center of the first half of Second Isaiah (Isaiah 40-55), which was composed in the middle of the sixth century B.C.E. to encourage Judeans scattered by the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E. to return and rebuild their city and temple.
Oct 18, 2020 · When the divine promises that we thought were our birthright no longer hold true? Isaiah 45:1-7 wrestles with those questions in surprising ways. In its background lies Judah’s half-century of exile after the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple.
David Guzik commentary on Isaiah 45 describes how God chooses Cyrus to proclaim that God is in control, encouraging Israel to look to Him and thus be saved.
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