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Media
Region mentioned in 11 verses of the Bible, most often in Esther.
Journeys through Media
- Israel into exile (722 BC)
Where it appears
Esther (5), Jeremiah (3), Ezra (1), Isaiah (1), Daniel (1)
Key verses
- Ezra 6:2 first mention — And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
- Esther 1:3 — In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
- Esther 1:14 — And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king’s face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
- Esther 1:18 — Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king’s princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
- Esther 1:19 — If it please the king, let there go 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.
- Esther 10:2 — And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
- Isaiah 21:2 — A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
- Jeremiah 25:25 — And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
- Jeremiah 51:11 — Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
- Jeremiah 51:28 — Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
- Daniel 8:20 — The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.
Nearby places
- Persia 0 km
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