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: (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh 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, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 36:23 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh, the God of heaven, given 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh 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, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 1:2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh, the God of heaven, given me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 1:8 even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 3:7 They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, to them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 4:3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, said to them, You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 4:5 and hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 4:7 In the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian character, and set forth in the Syrian language. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 4:9 then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and 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, (See RSV NIV)
Ezra 4:24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 6:14 The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. the lowest (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 7:1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 9:9 For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
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), (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
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. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Esther 10:2 All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
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 set forth your comeliness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 38:5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
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. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 6:12 Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's decree: Haven't you signed an decree, that every man who shall make 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. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 6:15 Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 8:20 The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 10:1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 10:13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 10:20 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go forth, behold, the prince of Greece shall come. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)