Thematic Bible: Medes


Thematic Bible



PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,

And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.


In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,


Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even unto Ethiopia, over a hundred and seven and twenty provinces),

If it please the king, let there go forth a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, that Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.


And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written for a record:


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