Medes

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Inhabitants of Media

Israelites distributed among, when carried to Assyria

• 2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
• 2 Kings 18:11 The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

Palace in the Bablonian province of

• Ezra 6:2 And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:

An essential part of the Medo-Persian Empire

• Esther 1:1 This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.
• Esther 1:19 So if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and that her royal position shall be given to a woman better than she.

Supremacy of, in the Chaldean Empire

• Daniel 5:28 PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
• Daniel 5:31 and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
• Daniel 9:1 In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans —
• Daniel 11:1 “And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, stood up to strengthen and protect him.