Isa 13:17, 21:2, 45:1-2, Dan 5:31, 6:28, 8:3-4, 20, 9:1 | ESV | STEP | Behold , I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold .

2 A stern vision is told to me;
^bthe traitor betrays,
and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O ^cElam;
lay siege, O ^dMedia;
all the ^esighing she has caused
I bring to an end.

Isaiah 45:1-2

Cyrus, God’s Instrument

1 Thus says the Lord to ^fhis anointed, to Cyrus,
^gwhose right hand I have grasped,
to subdue nations before him
and ^hto loose the belts of kings,
to open doors before him
that gates may not be closed:
2 “I will go before you
and ⁱlevel the exalted places, ^{▼▼Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint level the mountains}
^kI will break in pieces the doors of bronze
and cut through the bars of iron,

Daniel 5:31

31 ^{▼▼Ch 6:1 in Aramaic} And ^mDarius ⁿthe Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

Daniel 6:28

28 So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and ^othe reign of ^pCyrus the Persian.

Daniel 8:3-4

3 I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, ^qa ram standing on the bank of the canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last. 4 I saw ^rthe ram charging westward and northward and southward. No ^sbeast ^tcould stand before him, ^uand there was no one who could rescue from his power. ^vHe did as he pleased and ^wbecame great.

Daniel 8:20

20 As for ^xthe ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of ^yMedia and Persia.

Daniel 9:1

Daniel’s Prayer for His People

1 ^zIn the first year of ^aaDarius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a ^abMede, who was made king over the realm of the ^acChaldeans—