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.
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But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. …
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: …
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.
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
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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…
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