Treasury of Scripture
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Isaiah 13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
Isaiah 44:28 That said of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, You shall be built...
1 Kings 19:15 And the LORD said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when you come, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
Jeremiah 27:6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant...
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Isaiah 41:13 For I the LORD your God will hold your right hand, saying to you, Fear not; I will help you.
Isaiah 42:6 I the LORD have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people...
Psalm 73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have held me by my right hand.
holden. or, strengthened.
Ezekiel 30:21-24 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, see, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it...
to subdue
Isaiah 41:2,25 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings...
Ezra 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled...
Jeremiah 50:3,35 For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein...
Jeremiah 51:11,20-24 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes...
Daniel 5:6,28-30 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed...
Daniel 7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side...
Daniel 8:3 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high...
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 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.