Esther 1:3
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3 in the third year of his reign (A)he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him,
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Mark 6:21
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21 But an opportunity came when Herod (A)on his birthday (B)gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
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Daniel 5:1
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The Handwriting on the Wall
5 (A)King Belshazzar (B)made a great feast for a thousand of his (C)lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.
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Esther 2:18
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18 Then the king (A)gave a great feast for all his officials and servants; it was Esther's feast. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces and gave gifts with royal generosity.
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1 Kings 3:15
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15 And Solomon (A)awoke, and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.
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Jeremiah 51:11
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Isaiah 21:2
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2 A stern vision is told to me;
(A)the traitor betrays,
and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O (B)Elam;
lay siege, O (C)Media;
all the (D)sighing she has caused
I bring to an end.
Genesis 40:20
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20 On the third day, which was Pharaoh's (A)birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and (B)lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
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Daniel 8:20
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20 As for (A)the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of (B)Media and Persia.
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Daniel 6:6-7
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6 Then these (A)high officials and (B)satraps came by agreement[a] to the king and said to him, “O (C)King Darius, live forever! 7 All the (D)high officials of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the (E)counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an (F)injunction, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.
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- Daniel 6:6 Or came thronging; also verses 11, 15
Daniel 6:1
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Daniel and the Lions' Den
6 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom (A)120 (B)satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom;
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Daniel 5:28
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28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to (A)the Medes and (B)Persians.”[a]
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- Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia
Daniel 3:2-3
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2 Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather (A)the satraps, the prefects, and (B)the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 3 Then (C)the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
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Esther 1:14
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14 the men next to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and (A)Memucan, (B)the seven princes of Persia and Media, (C)who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom):
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Ezra 1:2
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2 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and (A)he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
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