Jesaja 45:3

3 und ich werde dir verborgene Schätze und versteckte Reichtümer geben, auf daß du wissest, daß ich Jehova bin, der dich bei deinem Namen gerufen hat, der Gott Israels.

Jesaja 45:3 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 45:3

And I will give thee treasures of darkness, and hidden riches
of secret places
What had been laid up in private places, and had not seen the light for many years. The Jewish Rabbins say ^F6, that Nebuchadnezzar having amassed together all the riches of the world, when he drew near his end, considered with himself to whom he should leave it; and being unwilling to leave it to Evilmerodach, he ordered ships of brass to be built, and filled them with it, and dug a place in Euphrates, and hid them in it, and turned the river upon them; and that day that Cyrus ordered the temple to be built, the Lord revealed them to him: the riches of Croesus king of Lydia, taken by Cyrus, are meant; especially what he found in Babylon, which abounded in riches, ( Jeremiah 51:13 ) . Pliny ^F7 says, when he conquered Asia, he brought away thirty four thousand pounds of gold, besides golden vessels, and five hundred thousand talents of silver, and the cup of Semiramis, which weighed fifteen talents. Xenophon ^F8 makes mention of great riches and treasures which Cyrus received from Armenius, Gobryas, and Croesus: that thou mayest know that I the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am
the God of Israel;
to call him by name two hundred years, or near it, before he was born, was a proof that he was God omniscient, and knew things before they were, and could call things that were not, as though they were; and this Cyrus was made acquainted with; for, as Josephus

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 says, he read this prophecy in Isaiah concerning him; and all this being exactly fulfilled in him, obliged him to acknowledge him the Lord, to be the Lord God of heaven, and the Lord God of Israel, ( Ezra 1:2 Ezra 1:3 ) .
F6 Vide Abendana in Miclol Yophi in Ioc.
F7 Nat. Hist. l. 33. c. 3.
F8 Cyropaedia, l. 3. c. 3. l. 5. c. 4. l. 7. c. 14.
F9 Antiqu. l. 11. c. 1. sect. 2.

Jesaja 45:3 In-Context

1 So spricht Jehova zu seinem Gesalbten, zu Kores, dessen Rechte ich ergriffen habe, um Nationen vor ihm niederzuwerfen, und damit ich die Lenden der Könige entgürte, um Pforten vor ihm aufzutun, und damit Tore nicht verschlossen bleiben.

2 Ich, ich werde vor dir herziehen und werde das Höckerichte eben machen; eherne Pforten werde ich zerbrechen und eiserne Riegel zerschlagen;

3 und ich werde dir verborgene Schätze und versteckte Reichtümer geben, auf daß du wissest, daß ich Jehova bin, der dich bei deinem Namen gerufen hat, der Gott Israels.

4 Um Jakobs, meines Knechtes, und Israels, meines Auserwählten, willen rief ich dich bei deinem Namen, ich gab dir einen Beinamen, und du kanntest mich nicht;

5 ich bin Jehova, und sonst ist keiner, außer mir ist kein Gott; ich gürtete dich, und du kanntest mich nicht: -