Ezr 1:2, Est 1:14, Isa 21:2, Jer 51:11, Dan 5:28, 8:20 | ESV | STEP | Thus says Cyrus king of Persia : The Lord , the God of heaven , has given me all the kingdoms of the earth , and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem , which is in Judah .

Ezra 1:2

2 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and ^ahe has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Esther 1:14

14 the men next to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and ^bMemucan, ^cthe seven princes of Persia and Media, ^dwho saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom):

Isaiah 21:2

2 A stern vision is told to me;
^ethe traitor betrays,
and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O ^fElam;
lay siege, O ^gMedia;
all the ^hsighing she has caused
I bring to an end.

Jeremiah 51:11

11 ⁱ“Sharpen the arrows!
Take up the shields!
^jThe Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of ^kthe Medes, because ^lhis purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, ^mfor that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for ⁿhis temple.

Daniel 5:28

28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to ^othe Medes and ^pPersians.” ^{▼▼ Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia}

Daniel 8:20

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