Media

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

34.806° N, 48.516° E

Medes, Media, Median

• Μῆδος·Medes
• מָדַי·Media
• מָדִי·Mede
• מָדַי·Mede
• מָֽדָאָה·Mede

Includes 2 verses that refer to Media without naming it.

1. 2 Kings 17:6מָדַי · Mede
   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.
2. 2 Kings 18:11מָדַי · Mede
   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.
3. Ezra 6:2מָדַי · Media
   And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:
4. Esther 1:3מָדַי · Media
   In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.
5. Esther 1:14מָדַי · Media
   His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.
6. Esther 1:18מָדַי · Media
   This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard about the queen’s conduct will say the same thing to all the king’s officials, resulting in much contempt and wrath.
7. Esther 1:19מָדַי · Mede
   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the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and that her royal position shall be given to a woman better than she.
8. Esther 10:2מָדַי · Media
   And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?
9. Isaiah 13:17מָדַי · Mede
   Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
10. Isaiah 13:18Referred to, not named
    Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.
11. Isaiah 21:2מָדַי · Media
    A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
12. Jeremiah 25:25מָדַי · Media
    …all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media;
13. Jeremiah 51:11מָדַי · Mede
    Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple.
14. Jeremiah 51:12Referred to, not named
    Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
15. Jeremiah 51:28מָדַי · Mede
    Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.
16. Daniel 5:28מָדַי · Mede
    PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”
17. Daniel 5:31מָֽדָאָה · Mede; מָדַי · Mede
    …and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
18. Daniel 6:8מָדַי · Mede
    Therefore, O king, establish the decree and sign the document so that it cannot be changed—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”
19. Daniel 6:12מָדַי · Mede
    So they approached the king and asked about his royal decree: “Did you not sign a decree that for thirty days any man who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions?” The king replied, “According to the law of the Medes and Persians the order stands, and it cannot be repealed.”
20. Daniel 6:15מָדַי · Mede
    Then the men approached the king together and said to him, “Remember, O king, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no decree or ordinance established by the king can be changed.”
21. Daniel 8:20מָדַי · Media
    The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
22. Daniel 9:1מָדַי · Mede
    In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—
23. Daniel 11:1מָדִי · Mede
    “And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, stood up to strengthen and protect him.
24. Acts 2:9Μῆδος · Medes
    Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,