medes <2KI17 -6> In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the {Medes}. medes <2KI18 -11> And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the {Medes}: medes And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that [is] in the province of the {Medes}, a roll, and therein [was] a record thus written: medes If 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 roya l estate unto another that is better than she. medes Behold, I will stir up the {Medes} against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it. medes And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the {Medes}, medes Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the {Medes}: for his device [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. medes Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the {Medes}, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. medes PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the {Medes} and Persians. medes Now, 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. medes Then 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. medes Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the {Medes} and Persians [is], That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed. medes In 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; medes Parthians, and {Medes}, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, ~~~~~~