Ezra 1:2

1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 2:12; Daniel 2:21; Daniel 2:28; Daniel 2:37; Daniel 2:38; Daniel 4:25; Daniel 4:32; Daniel 5:19-21; Daniel 5:23; Isaiah 44:26-28; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 45:12; Isaiah 45:13; Isaiah 66:1; Jeremiah 10:11; Jeremiah 27:6; Jeremiah 27:7

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord God of heaven - Or, “Yahweh, the God of heaven.” In the original Persian, the document probably ran - “ Ormazd, the God of heaven.” The...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me (d) all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

PART I (Ezra 1-6). The Return under Zerubbabel to the Completion of the Temple. Ezra 1:1-4 . The Edict of Cyrus. Cf. 2 Chronicles 36:22 f....
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4. God of heaven. See note on 2 Chronicles 36:23 . Appropriate in the mouth of Cyrus, and in contrast with all heath...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 2. The Lord God of heaven — It is observable, that God, in the former books, is called the Lord of hosts; but in the last of Chronicles,...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Return of the Jews from Captivity The chapter narrates how Cyrus, king of Persia, permitted the Jews in Babylon to return to Jerusalem to rebu...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Lord God.. hath given me ] Cyrus showed great regard for the religious sentiments of his various subjects; and just as in his inscriptions it is...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I. THE FIRST RETURN UNDER ZERUBBABEL. (1-4) The decree of Cyrus: marking an epoch of very great importance, and therefore repeated almost word for...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE ROYAL EDICT Ezra 1:2-4 ; Ezra 1:7-11 IT has been asserted that the Scripture version of the edict of Cyrus cannot be an exact rendering of...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's Promises Fulfilled Ezra 1:1-11 God will ever be mindful of His covenant. There were also many remembrancers as Daniel and other like-mind...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The Book of Ezra contains an account of a most important epoch in the history of the people of God. After seventy years of captivity, a return from c...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I think it is probable that some of the Lord's hidden ones might have painted out to Cyrus what the Lord's prophet Isaiah had predicted concerning hi...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia ,.... Of whom, and this edict of his, Isaiah prophesied two hundred years before he was born, Isaiah 44:28 the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord God of heaven It is observable, says Mr. Locke, that God, in the former books, is called the Lord of hosts , but in the last of Chronicle...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE CAPTIVES OF JUDAH LIBERATED (vv. 1-11) When the Medes and Persians defeated Babylon, Darius the Mede was ruler, and not until Cyrus the Pers...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Proclamation of Cyrus. B. C. 536. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

All the kingdoms of the earth, to wit, in those parts of the world; all that vast empire formerly under the Assyrians and Babylonians. The gift of...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Edict Of Cyrus ( Ezra 1:1-4 ). Ezra 1:1 ‘Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of YHWH by the mouth of Jeremiah migh...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Edict Of Cyrus And Its Result ( Ezra 1:1-11 ). In 538 BC Cyrus issued an edict allowing Jews to return to their homeland, and authorising the...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] In this chapter we have (i.) the proclamation of Cyrus ( Ezra 1:1-4 ); (ii.) the preparation of the Jews for availin...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezra 1:1 . In the first year of Cyrus. Darius had the title of king of Babylon; but according to Xenophon, Cyrus had the throne, and remained in t...
The Biblical Illustrator

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord. The discipline of the captivity The captivity is clearly represented...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

PART 1 1. THE FIRST RETURN FROM THE CAPTIVITY EXPOSITION THE DECREE OF CYRUS ( Ezra 1:1-15 ). The origin of the return is...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Proclamation of Cyrus
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth, his empire at that time being a world empire;...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

All, &c. — In those parts of the world; all that vast empire formerly under the Assyrians and Babylonians. The gift of which he ascribes to the...

² Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Related Commentaries of Ezra 1:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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