Thematic Bible: Medes


Thematic Bible



Divided -- Divided is thy kingdom, and it hath been given to the Medes and Persians.'

In the first year of Darius, son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who hath been made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,

and Darius the Mede hath received the kingdom, when a son of sixty and two years.

And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, my standing is for a strengthener, and for a stronghold to him;


in the ninth year of Hoshea hath the king of Asshur captured Samaria, and removeth Israel to Asshur, and causeth them to dwell in Halah, and in Habor, by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

and the king of Asshur removeth Israel to Asshur, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor by the river Gozan, and in cities of the Medes,


And it cometh to pass, in the days of Ahasuerus -- he is Ahasuerus who is reigning from Hodu even unto Cush, seven and twenty and a hundred provinces --

If to the king it be good, there goeth forth a royal word from before him, and it is written with the laws of Persia and Media, and doth not pass away, that Vashti doth not come in before the king Ahasuerus, and her royalty doth the king give to her companion who is better than she;


and there hath been found at Achmetha, in a palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and a record thus written within it is: