Medo-Persian Kingdom

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Esther 1:1 OT

  Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),

• Genesis 10:22 OT

  The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

• Daniel 2:32 OT

  As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,

• Daniel 2:39 OT

  “After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.

• Daniel 7:5 OT

  “Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’

• Daniel 8:3 OT

  Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

• Daniel 8:20 OT

  The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

• Esther 1:2 OT

  in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Susa the palace,

• Esther 8:15 OT

  Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.

• Ezra 6:2 OT

  A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:

• Daniel 6:1 OT

  It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty local governors, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;

• Daniel 6:12 OT

  Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of…

• Daniel 6:15 OT

  Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.”

• Esther 3:8 OT

  Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it…

• Esther 3:11 OT

  The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”

• Esther 7:9 OT

  Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

• Ezra 1:1 OT

  Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also…

• Ezra 4:6 OT

  In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

• Ezra 4:7 OT

  In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Syrian, and delivered in the Syrian language.

• Ezra 6:1 OT

  Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.

• Daniel 5:31 OT

  Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

• Daniel 11:2 OT

  “Now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings will stand up in Persia; and the fourth will be far richer than all of them. When he has grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all against the realm of Greece.

• Ezra 6:14 OT

  The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus,…

• Ezra 7:1 OT

  Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,