I hate to read the god Marduk taking credit along side the Lord God's work. Isaiah 44 is a chapter about the foolishness of worshiping false gods. There is only one God, Isaiah 44:6.
I see Cyrus as a leader whose political aspirations were used by God to bless His people.
"The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water, he turns it wheresoever he will." Prov 21:1. Marduk is not a Godfather, but a false God worshipped by the Babylonians, one of thousands they worshiped. Babylonians witnessed the restoration of Israel and needed an explanation, likely a priest wrote the account from their own historical perspective, but it proves out the Bible's account.
I hate to read the god Marduk taking credit along side the Lord God's work. Isaiah 44 is a chapter about the foolishness of worshiping false gods. There is only one God, Isaiah 44:6.
I see Cyrus as a leader whose political aspirations were used by God to bless His people.
"The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water, he turns it wheresoever he will." Prov 21:1. Marduk is not a Godfather, but a false God worshipped by the Babylonians, one of thousands they worshiped. Babylonians witnessed the restoration of Israel and needed an explanation, likely a priest wrote the account from their own historical perspective, but it proves out the Bible's account.