Torrey's Topical Index

Return to Torrey's Main Index
Previous topic (Meat-offerings)

Medo-Persian Kingdom

 

Medo-Persian Kingdom

Extended from India to Ethiopia - Es 1:1

Peopled by descendants of Eliam - Ge 10:22

ILLUSTRATED BY

• Silver part of image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream
- Da 2:32,39
• A bear
- Da 7:5
• A ram with two horns
- Da 8:3,20

Shushan a chief city of - Es 1:2; 8:15

Achmetha or Ecbatana a chief city of - Ezr 6:2

Divided into many provinces - Es 1:1; Da 6:1

Laws of, unalterable - Da 6:12,15

Ruled by, absolute kings - Es 3:8,11; 7:9

KINGS OF, MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Cyrus
- Ezr 1:1
• Ahasuerus or Cambyses
- Ezr 4:6
• Artaxerxes Smerdis (an usurper)
- Ezr 4:7
• Darius Hystaspes
- Ezr 6:1; Da 5:31
• Xerxes
- Da 11:2
• Artaxerxes Longimanus or Ahasuerus
- Ezr 6:14; 7:1; Es 1:1

KINGS OF

• Called kings of Assyria
- Ezr 6:22
• Called kings of Babylon
- Ne 13:6
• Styled themselves king of kings
- Ezr 7:12
• Dwelt in royal palaces
- Es 1:2; 8:14
• Were exceeding rich
- Es 1:4; Da 12:2
• Entertained magnificently
- Es 1:3,5,7
• Held in their hand a golden sceptre
- Es 5:2
• Put to death all who approached them without permission
- Es 4:11,16

Celebrated for wise men - Es 1:13; Mt 2:1

People of, warlike - Eze 27:10; 38:5

Peculiar customs in - Es 1:8; 2:12,13

Babylon taken by the king of - Da 5:20,31

The Jews delivered from captivity by means of - 2Ch 36:20,22,23; Ezr 1:1-4

PREDICTIONS RESPECTING

• Extensive conquest
- Da 8:4
• Conquest of Babylon
- Isa 21:1,2; Da 5:28
• Deliverance of the Jews
- Isa 44:28; 45:1-4
• Invasion of Greece under Xerxes
- Da 11:2
• Downfall by Alexander
- Da 8:6,7; 11:3
Next Topic (Meekness)