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e:2Chr.36.23">23; Ezr 1:1,8; Es 1:3,14,18; 10:2; Eze 27:10; 38:5; Da 8:20; 10:1; 11:2) this name denotes properly the modern province of Fars, not the whole Persian empire.
Where is Persia in the Bible?
Persia in the Bible refers to the vast Persian Empire that dominated the Near East from the 6th to 4th centuries BCE, located in what is now modern-day Iran. In biblical history, Persia is most significant for conquering the Babylonian Empire and subsequently allowing the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple, as recorded in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. The empire also figures prominently in the book of Esther, which describes the life of a Jewish queen in the Persian court, and in Daniel, which contains visions relating to Persian rule. These books emphasize Persia's role in God's plan to restore His people after their exile, demonstrating divine providence working through a pagan empire.
In Scripture4 biblical books; 4 with study content
- Ezra
- Esther
- Daniel
- Nehemiah
Persia
ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)e:2Chr.36.23">23; Ezr 1:1,8; Es 1:3,14,18; 10:2; Eze 27:10; 38:5; Da 8:20; 10:1; 11:2) this name denotes properly the modern province of Fars, not the whole Persian empire. The latter was by its people called Airyaria, the present Iran (from the Sanskrit word arya, "noble"); and even now the Persians never call their country anything but Iran, never "Persia." The province of Persis lay to the East of Elam (Susiana), and stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Great Salt Desert, having Carmania on the Southeast. Its chief cities were Persepolis and Pasargadae. Along the Persian Gulf the land is low, hot and unhealthy, but it soon begins to rise as one travels inland. Most of the province consists of high and steep mountains and plateaus, with fertile valleys. The table-lands in which lie the modern city of Shiraz and the ruins of Persepolis and Pasargadae are well watered and productive. Nearer the desert, however, cultivation grows scanty for want of water. Persia was doubtless in early times included in Elam, and its population was then either Semitic or allied to the Accadians, who founded more than one state in the Babylonian plain. The Aryan Persians seem to have occupied the country in the 8th or 9th century BC.
W. St. Clair Tisdall
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