Medes

How Nave’s arranged it

• Inhabitants of Media
• Israelites distributed among, when carried to Assyria2 Kings 17:62 Kings 18:11
• Palace in the Bablonian province ofEzra 6:2
• An essential part of the Medo-Persian EmpireEsther 1:1Esther 1:19
• Supremacy of, in the Chaldean EmpireDaniel 5:28Daniel 5:31Daniel 9:1Daniel 11:1

The passages, in Bible order (9)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 9 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 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.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 17:62 voices

   “In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria,.....

   “Took Samaria - According to the prophets Hosea, Hos 13:16, and Micah, Mic 1:6. He exercised great cruelties on this miserable city, ripping up the women with child, dashing young children against the stones, etc. etc. Carried Israel away into Assyria - What were the places to which the unfortunate Israelites were carried, or where their successors are now situated, have given rise to innumerable conjectures, dissertations, discourses, etc. Some maintain that they are found on the coast of Guinea; others, in America; the Indian tribes being the descendants of those carried away by the Assyrians.

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2. 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.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 18:111 voice

   “And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria,.... Of the places he disposed of them in, after mentioned; see Gill on 2Ki 17:6.

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3. 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:

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   “And there was found at Achmetha,....

   “At Achmetha - Ecbatana in India, whither it is probable all the records of Cyrus had been carried. This was a sort of summer residence for the kings of Persia.

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4. Esther 1:1

   This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.

   ›Commentary on Esther 1:12 voices

   “The Book of Esther stands corrupted by various translators. Which (book) I, lifting up from the archives of the Hebrews, have translated more accurately word for word. The common edition drags the book by knotted ropes of words hither and yon, adding to it things which may have been said or heard at any time. This is as is usual with instruction by schools, when a subject has been taken up, to figure out from the words which someone could have used, which one either suffered injury, or which one caused injury (to the text).

   “Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus,.... Who he was is not easy to say; almost all the kings of Persia are so named by one or another writer.

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5. 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.

   ›Commentary on Esther 1:192 voices

   “The advice which King Ahasuerus asks of his seven sages who were, according to royal custom always by his side, concerning the insolent Vashti—as well as the sentence he orders them to pass concerning her—undoubtedly signifies the sentence our Savior passes against the arrogance of …

   “If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him,....

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6. Daniel 5:28

   PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

   ›Commentary on Daniel 5:282 voices

   Verses 25-28. "This is the inscription which has been set up: MANE, THECEL, PHARES. And this is the interpretation of the sentence: 'MANE' means that God has numbered thy kingdom and brought it to an end. 'THECEL' means it has been weighed in the scales and has been found deficient (Vulg.: thou hast been weighed and hast been found...). 'PHARES' means that thy kingdom has been removed and given to the Medes and Persians."

   “PERES,.... The singular of "Pharsin", Dan 5:

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7. Daniel 5:31

   and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

   ›Commentary on Daniel 5:312 voices

   “Verses 30, 31. "On that same night Belshazzar, King of the Chaldeans, was slain, and Darius the Mede succeeded to his kingdom at the age of sixty-two." Josephus writes in his tenth book of the Jewish Antiquities that when Babylon had been laid under siege by the Medes and Persians, that is, by Darius and Cyrus, Belshazzar, King of Babylon, fell into such forgetfulness of his own situation as to put on his celebrated banquet and drink from the vessels of the Temple, and even while he was besieged he found leisure for banqueting.

   “And so Darius, who was called Ahasuerus, received the kingdom and "appointed one-hundred-twenty satraps and appointed three governors over them, whom Daniel was one of, for the satraps to give account that the king may not be overburdened.

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8. 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—

   ›Commentary on Daniel 9:12 voices

   “Verse 1. "In the first year of the Darius who was the son of Ahasuerus of the race of the Medes and who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans, in the first year of his reign..." This is the Darius who in cooperation with Cyrus conquered the Chaldeans and Babylonians. We are not to think of that other Darius in the second year of whose reign the Temple was built (as Porphyry supposes in making out a late date for Daniel); nor are we to think of the Darius who was vanquished by Alexander, the king of the Macedonians.

   “In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes,....

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9. Daniel 11:1

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

   ›Commentary on Daniel 11:12 voices

   Verse 1. "And from the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up that he might be strengthened and confirmed."

   “Also I, in the first year of Darius the Mede,....

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