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पवित्र बाइबल (सरल नेपाली)

एज्रा 1:2

2 “फारसका राजा कोरेस यो भन्नुहुन्छःपरमप्रभु, स्वर्गका परमेश्वरले पृथ्वीका सम्पूर्ण राज्यहरू मलाई दिनु भएको छ, अनि उहाँले यहूदाका यरूशलेममा उहाँको निम्ति एक मन्दिर निर्माण गर्न मलाई नियुक्त गर्नु भएको छ।

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church and State;   Emancipation;   Heathen;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Jerusalem;   Liberality;   Obedience;   Proclamation;   Servant;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;   Jerusalem;   Jews, the;   Kings;   Medo-Persian Kingdom;   Temple, the Second;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Earth;   Persia;   Temple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Cyrus;   Exile;   Ezra;   Haggai;   Heaven;   Israel;   Jerusalem;   Nehemiah;   Persia;   Zechariah, book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Decrees;   Ezra, Theology of;   Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cyrus;   Jerusalem;   Palestine;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Cyrus;   Daniel;   Ezra, the Book of;   Magi;   Persia;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cyrus;   Exile;   Ezra, Book of;   Israel, History of;   Jerusalem;   Persia;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra, Book of;   Mithradates;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cyrus;   Election,;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cyrus;   Medes;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Apocrypha;   Cyrus;   Earth;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Captivities of the Jews;   Cy'rus;   Per'sia;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cyrus;   Earth;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cyrus;   Esdras, the First Book of;   Haggai;   Persians;   Solomon's Servants;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Avesta;   Esdras, Books of;   Heaven;   Persia;   Signature;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lord God: 1 Kings 8:27, 2 Chronicles 2:12, Isaiah 66:1, Jeremiah 10:11, Daniel 2:21, Daniel 2:28, Daniel 5:23

hath given: Jeremiah 27:6, Jeremiah 27:7, Daniel 2:37, Daniel 2:38, Daniel 4:25, Daniel 4:32, Daniel 5:19-21

all the kingdoms: According to the testimony of ancient writers, Cyrus, at this time, reigned over the Medes, Persians, Hyrcanians, Syrians, Assyrians, Indians, etc., and all lesser Asia.

he hath charged: Isaiah 44:26-28, Isaiah 45:1, Isaiah 45:12, Isaiah 45:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:7 - Lord Deuteronomy 2:24 - behold Ezra 5:8 - the great God Ezra 5:15 - let the house Esther 1:3 - of Persia Psalms 145:6 - And men Isaiah 14:17 - opened not the house of his prisoners Isaiah 40:9 - General Isaiah 41:2 - gave Isaiah 41:25 - shall he call Isaiah 41:27 - I will give Isaiah 44:8 - ye are Isaiah 45:3 - that thou Isaiah 45:5 - I girded thee Isaiah 46:11 - the man Isaiah 49:23 - kings Jeremiah 25:12 - when Jeremiah 27:5 - and have Jeremiah 29:10 - after Jeremiah 50:9 - I will raise Daniel 6:25 - king Daniel 6:28 - and in Daniel 8:3 - one Daniel 10:1 - Cyrus Jonah 1:9 - the God Micah 4:10 - there shalt Revelation 16:11 - the God

Gill's Notes on the 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 Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; many he had conquered before he took Babylon, and then the whole Babylonian monarchy fell into his hands. Herodotus l says, he ruled over all Asia; Xenophon m reckons up many nations that were under his government, Medes and Hyrcanians, Syrians, Assyrians, Arabians, Cappadocians, both the Phrygians, Carians, Phoenicians, Babylonians, Bactrians, Indians, Cilicians, Sacae or Scythians, Paphlagonians, Megadinians, and many other nations, the Greeks inhabiting Asia, and the Cyprians, and Egyptians; and elsewhere he says n, the borders of his kingdom were, to the east the Red sea, to the north the Euxine Pontus, to the west Cyprus and Egypt, and to the south Ethiopia. And the possession of these kingdoms Cyrus ascribes, not to his own martial courage and skill, but to the providence and disposal of the God of heaven, which he seems to have had some notion of:

and he hath charged me to build an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah; in the prophecy of Isaiah, which, according to Josephus o, he had seen and read, and believed it to be a charge upon him, and a command unto him to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem; however, to give leave for the rebuilding of it, and to encourage to it, and assist in it; an Arabic writer says p, that Cyrus married a sister of Zerubbabel, and that it was at her request that the Jews had leave to return; which is merely fabulous.

l Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 130. So Sallust, Bell. Catalin. p. 2. m Cyropaedia, l. 1. in principio. n L. 8. c. 48. o Antiqu. l. 11. c. 1. sect. 1, 2. p Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 5. p. 82.

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 Hebrew transcript took “Yahweh” as the equivalent of “Ormazd.” The Persian notion of a single Supreme Being - Ahura-Mazda, “the much-knowing, or much-bestowing Spirit” - did, in fact, approach nearly to the Jewish conception of Yahweh.

Hath given me all the kingdoms ... - There is a similar formula at the commencement of the great majority of Persian inscriptions.

He hath charged me to build him an house - It is a reasonable conjecture that, on the capture of Babylon, Cyrus was brought into contact with Daniel, who drew his attention to the prophecy of Isaiah Isaiah 44:28; and that Cyrus accepted this prophecy as a “charge” to rebuild the temple.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 1:2. The Lord God of heaven — It is not unworthy of remark, that in all the books written prior to the captivity, Jehovah is called The Lord of Hosts; but in all the books written after the captivity, as 2 Chronicles, Ezra Nehemiah, and Daniel, he is styled The God of Heaven. The words however have the same meaning.

All the kingdoms of the earth. At this time the empire of the Medo-Persians was very extensive: according to ancient writers, Cyrus, at this time, reigned over the Medes, Persians, Hyrcanians, Armenians, Syrians, Assyrians, Arabians, Cappadocians, Phrygians, Lydians Phoenicians, Babylonians, Bactrians, Indians, Saci, Cilicians, Paphlagonians, Moriandrians, and many others. His empire extended on the EAST, to the Red Sea; on the NORTH, to the Euxine Sea; on the WEST, to the island of Cyprus and Egypt; and on the SOUTH, to Ethiopia.


 
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