Nave’s Topical Bible
Persia
44 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- An empire which extended from India to Ethiopia, comprising one-hundred and twenty-seven provinces
- Government of, restricted by constitutional limitations
- Municipal governments in, provided with dual governors
- The princes were advisors in matters of administration
- Status of women in; queen sat on the throne with the king
- Vashti was divorced for refusing to appear before the king's Courtiers
- Israel captive in
- Captivity foretold
- Men of, in the Tyrian army
- Rulers of
- Ahasuerus
- Darius
- Artaxerxes I
- Artaxerxes II
- Cyrus
2 Chronicles 36:22-23; Ezra 1; Ezra 3:7; Ezra 4:3; Ezra 5:13-14,17; Ezra 6:3; Isaiah 41:2-3; Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:1-4,13; Isaiah 46:11; Isaiah 48:14-15
- Princes of
- System of justice
- Prophecies concerning
Isaiah 13:17; Isaiah 21:1-10; Jeremiah 49:34-39; Jeremiah 51:11-64; Ezekiel 32:24-25; Ezekiel 38:5; Daniel 2:31-45; Daniel 5:28; Daniel 7; Daniel 8; Daniel 11:1-4
See BABYLON
See CHALDEA
Bible verses about “Persia”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Esther 1:1Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
- Daniel 6:1It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
- Esther 8:8Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh 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 no man reverse.
- Daniel 6:8Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
- Daniel 6:9Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
- Daniel 6:10Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
- Daniel 6:11Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
- Daniel 6:12Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
- Nehemiah 3:9And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.
- Nehemiah 3:12And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
- Nehemiah 3:16After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth–zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
- Nehemiah 3:17After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part.
- Nehemiah 3:18After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah.
- Daniel 6:2And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.
- Daniel 6:3Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
- Daniel 6:4Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
- Daniel 6:5Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
- Daniel 6:6Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
- Daniel 6:7All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
- Nehemiah 2:6And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
- Esther 1:10On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
- Esther 1:11To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
- Esther 1:12But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
- Esther 1:13Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
- Esther 1:14And 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 1:15What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
- Esther 1:16And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
- Esther 1:17For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
- Esther 1:18Likewise 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 1:19If 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 1:20And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
- Esther 1:21And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
- Esther 1:22For he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
- Esther 2:4And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
- 2 Chronicles 36:20And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
- Hosea 13:16Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
- Ezekiel 27:10They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
- Esther 1:3In 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:
- Daniel 5:31And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
- Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;