Thematic Bible: Medes


Thematic Bible



PERES; Thy kingdom has been broken and is 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 Median took the kingdom, being sixty-two years old.

And in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood to encourage and to strengthen him.


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

And the king of Assyria carried away Israel unto Assyria and put them in Halah and in Habor by 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 one hundred and twenty-seven provinces)

If it pleases 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 not be 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 in the coffer of the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written: