Discovery Box| (1.00) | Dan 5:28 |
| As for peres 1 – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.” |
| (0.75) | Dan 6:8 |
| Now let the king issue a written interdict 1 so that it cannot be altered, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed. 2 |
| (0.62) | Dan 6:15 |
| Then those men came by collusion to the king and 1 said to him, 2 “Recall, 3 O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or decree that the king issues can be changed.” |
| (0.44) | Dan 6:12 |
| So they approached the king and said to him, 1 “Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?” The king replied, “That is correct, 2 according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.” |
| (0.43) | Est 1:19 |
| If the king is so inclined, 1 let a royal edict go forth from him, and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media that cannot be repealed, 2 that Vashti 3 may not come into the presence of King Ahasuerus, and let the king convey her royalty to another 4 who is more deserving than she. 5 |
| (0.33) | Ezr 4:9 |
| From 1 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues – the judges, the rulers, the officials, the secretaries, the Erechites, the Babylonians, the people of Susa (that is, 2 the Elamites), |
| (0.26) | Dan 8:20 |
| The ram that you saw with the two horns stands for the kings of Media and Persia. |
| (0.23) | Isa 13:2 |
| 1 On a bare hill raise a signal flag, shout to them, wave your hand, so they might enter the gates of the princes! |
| (0.23) | Isa 13:3 |
| I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; 1 I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, 2 my boasting, arrogant ones. 3 |
| (0.19) | Ezr 5:6 |
| This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar-Bozenai, and his colleagues who were the officials of Trans-Euphrates sent to King Darius. |
| (0.19) | Ezr 6:6 |
| “Now Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar Bozenai, and their colleagues, the officials of Trans-Euphrates – all of you stay far away from there! |
| (0.19) | Isa 21:2 |
| I have received a distressing message: 1 “The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!” 2 |
| (0.15) | Jer 51:11 |
| “Sharpen 1 your arrows! Fill your quivers! 2 The Lord will arouse a spirit of hostility in 3 the kings of Media. 4 For he intends to destroy Babylonia. For that is how the Lord will get his revenge – how he will get his revenge for the Babylonians’ destruction of his temple. 5 |
