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• DAN 8:19–26, engwebp

  ¹⁹He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation, for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

  ²⁰The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

  ²¹The rough male goat is the king of Greece. The great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

  ²²As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.

  ²³“In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding riddles, will stand up.

  ²⁴His power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.

  ²⁵Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes, but he will be broken without human hands.

  ²⁶“The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come.”

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• EST 1:1–4, engwebp

  ¹Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),

  ²in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Susa the palace,

  ³in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the army of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces being before him.

  ⁴He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.

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• EST 1:13–15, engwebp

  ¹³Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

  ¹⁴and 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),

  ¹⁵“What shall we do to Queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?”

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• EST 1:16–20, engwebp

  ¹⁶Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.

  ¹⁷For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’

  ¹⁸Today, 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.

  ¹⁹“If it pleases 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.

  ²⁰When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”

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• EST 10:1–3, engwebp

  ¹King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land and on the islands of the sea.

  ²Aren’t 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, written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

  ³For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his descendants.

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• EZR 6:1–2, engwebp

  ¹Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.

  ²A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:

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• ISA 21:1–10, engwebp

  ¹The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

  ²A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

  ³Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.

  ⁴My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

  ⁵They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

  ⁶For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

  ⁷When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

  ⁸He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

  ⁹Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

  ¹⁰You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

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