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• 2 Chronicles 3:7

  He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.

• 2 Chronicles 4:3

  Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

• 2 Chronicles 5:13

  when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!” then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house,

• 2 Chronicles 5:14

  so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled God’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 5:17
• 2 Chronicles 6:3

  The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.

• 2 Chronicles 36:20

  He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,

• 2 Chronicles 36:22

  Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah 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 in writing, saying,

• 2 Chronicles 36:23

  “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.’”

• Ezra 4:7

  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 4:8

  Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows,

• Ezra 4:9

  then Rehum the chancellor, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,

• Ezra 4:10

  and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth, wrote.

• Ezra 4:11

  This is the copy of the letter that they sent: To King Artaxerxes, From your servants the men beyond the River.

• Ezra 4:12

  Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.

• Ezra 4:13

  Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.

• Ezra 4:14

  Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore we have sent and informed the king,

• Ezra 4:15

  that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.

• Ezra 4:16

  We inform the king that, if this city is built and the walls finished, then you will have no possession beyond the River.

• Ezra 4:17

  Then the king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions who live in Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River: Peace.

• Ezra 4:18

  The letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me.

• Ezra 4:19

  I decreed, and search has been made, and it was found that this city has made insurrection against kings in the past, and that rebellion and revolts have been made in it.

• Ezra 4:20

  There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.

• Ezra 4:21

  Make a decree now to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built, until a decree is made by me.

• Ezra 4:22

  Be careful that you not be slack doing so. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

• Ezra 4:23

  Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of arms.

• Ezra 4:24

  Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

• Ezra 5:14

  The gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king also took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor.

• Ezra 7:25

  You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

• Nehemiah 2:6

  The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “How long will your journey be? When will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for he.

• Nehemiah 3:9

  Next to them, Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.

• Nehemiah 3:12

  Next to him, Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters, made repairs.

• Nehemiah 3:16

  After him, Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.

• Nehemiah 3:17

  After him, the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani made repairs. Next to him, Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.

• Nehemiah 3:18

  After him, their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah made repairs.

• Esther 1:1

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

• Esther 1:3

  in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him.

• Esther 1:10

  On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

• Esther 1:11

  to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.

• Esther 1:12

  But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

• Esther 1:13

  Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

• Esther 1:14

  and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

• Esther 1:15

  “What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?”

• Esther 1:16

  Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 1:17

  For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’

• Esther 1:18

  Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.

• Esther 1:19

  “If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

• Esther 1:20

  When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”

• Esther 1:21

  This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

• Esther 1:22

  for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.

• Esther 2:4

  and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.

• Esther 8:8

  Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may not be reversed by any man.”

• Isaiah 13:17

  Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.

• Isaiah 21:1

  The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

• Isaiah 21:2

  A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

• Isaiah 21:3

  Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

• Isaiah 21:4

  My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

• Isaiah 21:5

  They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

• Isaiah 21:6

  For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

• Isaiah 21:7

  When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

• Isaiah 21:8

  He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

• Isaiah 21:9

  Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

• Isaiah 21:10

  You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

• Isaiah 41:2

  Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.

• Isaiah 41:3

  He pursues them, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

• Isaiah 44:28

  Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”

• Isaiah 45:1

  Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

• Isaiah 45:2

  “I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.

• Isaiah 45:3

  I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.

• Isaiah 45:4

  For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me.

• Isaiah 45:13

  I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Isaiah 46:11

  I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

• Isaiah 48:14

  “Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.

• Isaiah 48:15

  I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him. I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

• Jeremiah 49:34

  Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

• Jeremiah 49:35

  “Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

• Jeremiah 49:36

  On Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds. There will be no nation where the outcasts of Elam will not come.

• Jeremiah 49:37

  I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;

• Jeremiah 49:38

  and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes,’ says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 49:39

  ‘But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam,’ says Yahweh.”

• Jeremiah 51:11

  “Make the arrows sharp! Hold the shields firmly! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.

• Jeremiah 51:12

  Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

• Jeremiah 51:13

  You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

• Jeremiah 51:14

  Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they will lift up a shout against you.’

• Jeremiah 51:15

  “He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

• Jeremiah 51:16

  When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.

• Jeremiah 51:17

  “Every man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

• Jeremiah 51:18

  They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation, they will perish.

• Jeremiah 51:19

  The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things; including the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

• Jeremiah 51:20

  “You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.

• Jeremiah 51:21

  With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider.

• Jeremiah 51:22

  With you I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein. With you I will break in pieces man and woman. With you I will break in pieces the old man and the youth. With you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin.

• Jeremiah 51:23

  With you I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock. With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke. With you will I break in pieces governors and deputies.

• Jeremiah 51:24

  “I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 51:25

  “Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.

• Jeremiah 51:26

  They shall not take cornerstone from you, nor a stone for foundations; but you will be desolate for ever,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 51:27

  “Set up a standard in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her! Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm!

• Jeremiah 51:28

  Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion!

• Jeremiah 51:29

  The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

• Jeremiah 51:30

  The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.

• Jeremiah 51:31

  One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.

• Jeremiah 51:32

  So the passages are seized. They have burned the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened.”

• Jeremiah 51:33

  For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.”

• Jeremiah 51:34

  “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

• Jeremiah 51:35

  May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say.

• Jeremiah 51:36

  Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

• Jeremiah 51:37

  Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

• Jeremiah 51:38

  They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs.

• Jeremiah 51:39

  When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 51:40

  “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

• Jeremiah 51:41

  “How Sheshach is taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

• Jeremiah 51:42

  The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

• Jeremiah 51:43

  Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass by it.

• Jeremiah 51:44

  I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations shall not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.

• Jeremiah 51:45

  “My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.

• Jeremiah 51:46

  Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

• Jeremiah 51:47

  Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land will be confounded. All her slain will fall in the middle of her.

• Jeremiah 51:48

  Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, will sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 51:49

  “As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.

• Jeremiah 51:50

  You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”

• Jeremiah 51:51

  “We are confounded, because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”

• Jeremiah 51:52

  “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded will groan.

• Jeremiah 51:53

  Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 51:54

  “The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

• Jeremiah 51:55

  For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice! Their waves roar like many waters. The noise of their voice is uttered.

• Jeremiah 51:56

  For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for Yahweh is a God of recompenses. He will surely repay.

• Jeremiah 51:57

  I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

• Jeremiah 51:58

  Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”

• Jeremiah 51:59

  The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.

• Jeremiah 51:60

  Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

• Jeremiah 51:61

  Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,

• Jeremiah 51:62

  and say, ‘Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’

• Jeremiah 51:63

  It shall be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.

• Jeremiah 51:64

  Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

• Ezekiel 27:10

  Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they showed your beauty.

• Ezekiel 32:24

  There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.

• Ezekiel 32:25

  They have set her a bed among the slain with all her multitude; her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put among those who are slain.

• Ezekiel 38:5

  Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

• Daniel 2:31

  You, O king, saw, and behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its aspect was awesome.

• Daniel 2:32

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

• Daniel 2:33

  its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.

• Daniel 2:34

  You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

• Daniel 2:35

  Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

• Daniel 2:36

  This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.

• Daniel 2:37

  You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;

• Daniel 2:38

  and wherever the children of men dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky has he given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are the head of gold.

• Daniel 2:39

  After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you; and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

• Daniel 2:40

  The fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, shall it break in pieces and crush.

• Daniel 2:41

  Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.

• Daniel 2:42

  As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

• Daniel 2:43

  Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cling to one another, even as iron does not mingle with clay.

• Daniel 2:44

  In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

• Daniel 2:45

  Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.

• Daniel 5:28

  PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

• Daniel 5:31

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

• Daniel 6:1

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

• Daniel 6:2

  and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account to them, and that the king should have no damage.

• Daniel 6:3

  Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

• Daniel 6:4

  Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

• Daniel 6:5

  Then these men said, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

• Daniel 6:6

  Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever.

• Daniel 6:7

  All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

• Daniel 6:8

  Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.

• Daniel 6:9

  Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

• Daniel 6:10

  When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

• Daniel 6:11

  Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

• Daniel 6:12

  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 lions? The king answered, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.

• Daniel 9:1

  In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,

• Daniel 11:1

  “As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.

• Daniel 11:2

  Now will I show you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and when he has grown strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.

• Daniel 11:3

  A mighty king shall stand up, who shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

• Daniel 11:4

  When he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others besides these.

• Hosea 13:16

  Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”