"Thus says the Lord לִמְשִׁיחֹו לְכֹורֶשׁ" (Isa 45:1)

[Philitas]

("To his anointed, to Cyrus")

Does anyone know any comparable examples where the same person is referred to twice in a row, both using back-to-back prepositional lamed?

[stephens]

I did a quick syntactic search in the Andersen-Forbes Phrase Marker Analysis of the Hebrew Bible in Logos, and it gave me the following "hits". I haven't checked them all, but I scanned most, and in general they seem to fit with your example. (Some might be rather different - like those from Numbers, Joshua and Judges - but I've included all the hits anyway.)

• Gen 23:7; 24:4, 14; 32:5; 32:19; 40:1; 43:28; 47:29
• Num 13:11
• Josh 13:24, 31; 19:1, 17
• Judg 5:23
• 1 Sam 24:7; 25:8; 28:17; 30:26
• 2 Sam 6:19; 7:8, 10; 18:5, 29, 32
• 1 Kgs 8:38
• Isa 22:20; 45:1
• Ezek 28:25; 37:25
• Ruth 4:3
• Ezra 7:25
• 1 Chr 15:11; 17:7; 24:21
• 2 Chr 2:9; 6:17; 31:4; 35:7

Regards,