Isaiah 45:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

Isaiah 45:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 41:8-9
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. …
Exodus 19:5-6
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: …
Acts 17:23
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Romans 11:7
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
Isaiah 44:1
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

Cyrus was a Mede, descended (as some say) from Astyages king of Media. The pagan writers are not agreed in their accounts of his origin. Some tell us that in his infancy he was an outcast, left exposed, and was saved from perishing by a herdsman’s wife. However, it is agreed that, being a man of an active genius, he soon made himself very considerable, especially when Croesus king of Lydia made a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. (See on Is 41:8; Is 43:14). surnamed--that is, designated to carry out My design of restoring Judah (see on Is 44:5; Is 44:28; Is 45:1). Maurer here, as in Is 44:5, translates, “I have addressed thee by an honorable name.” hast not known me--previous to My calling thee to this office; after God’s call, Cyrus did know Him in some degree (Ezr 1:1-3).