Acts 2:9

New American Bible - revised edition

We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

Cross References

Genesis 10:22

The descendants of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram.

Genesis 14:1

When Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim

Genesis 24:10

The servant then took ten of his master’s camels, and bearing all kinds of gifts from his master, he made his way to the city of Nahor in Aram Naharaim.

2 Kings 17:6

In Hoshea’s ninth year, the king of Assyria took Samaria, deported the Israelites to Assyria, and settled them in Halah, and at the Habor, a river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

1 Chronicles 19:6

When the Ammonites realized that they had put themselves in bad odor with David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Aram Naharaim, from Aram-maacah, and from Zobah.

Ezra 6:2

However, a scroll was found in Ecbatana, the stronghold in the province of Media, containing the following text: “Memorandum.

Isaiah 11:11

On that day, The Lord shall again take it in hand to reclaim the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria and Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia, and Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the isles of the sea.

Isaiah 21:2

A harsh vision has been announced to me: “The traitor betrays, the despoiler spoils. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; put an end to all its groaning!”

Daniel 5:28

Peres, your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel 8:2

In my vision I saw myself in the fortress of Susa in the province of Elam; I was beside the river Ulai.

Daniel 8:20

“The two-horned ram you saw represents the kings of the Medes and Persians.

Acts 16:6

They traveled through the Phrygian and Galatian territory because they had been prevented by the holy Spirit from preaching the message in the province of Asia.

Acts 18:2

There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. He went to visit them

Acts 19:10

This continued for two years with the result that all the inhabitants of the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord, Jews and Greeks alike.

Acts 19:27

The danger grows, not only that our business will be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be of no account, and that she whom the whole province of Asia and all the world worship will be stripped of her magnificence.”

Acts 19:31

and even some of the Asiarchs who were friends of his sent word to him advising him not to venture into the theater.

Acts 2:8

Then how does each of us hear them in his own native language?

Acts 20:16

Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus in order not to lose time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if at all possible, for the day of Pentecost. Paul’s Farewell Speech at Miletus.

Acts 20:18

When they came to him, he addressed them, “You know how I lived among you the whole time from the day I first came to the province of Asia.

Acts 20:4

Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, from Beroea, accompanied him, as did Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia

Acts 21:27

When the seven days were nearly completed, the Jews from the province of Asia noticed him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd, and laid hands on him,

Acts 24:18

While I was so engaged, they found me, after my purification, in the temple without a crowd or disturbance.

Acts 27:2

We went on board a ship from Adramyttium bound for ports in the province of Asia and set sail. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.

Acts 6:9

Certain members of the so-called Synagogue of Freedmen, Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and people from Cilicia and Asia, came forward and debated with Stephen,

Acts 7:2

And he replied, “My brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia, before he had settled in Haran,

Romans 16:5

greet also the church at their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the firstfruits in Asia for Christ.

1 Corinthians 16:19

The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca together with the church at their house send you many greetings in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:8

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction that came to us in the province of Asia; we were utterly weighed down beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

Deuteronomy 23:4

No Ammonite or Moabite may ever come into the assembly of the Lord, nor may any of their descendants even to the tenth generation come into the assembly of the Lord,

2 Timothy 1:15

You know that everyone in Asia deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen sojourners of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

Revelation 1:11

which said, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

Revelation 1:4

John, to the seven churches in Asia: grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne,

Judges 3:8

and the anger of the Lord flared up against them. He sold them into the power of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Aram Naharaim; and the Israelites served Cushan-rishathaim for eight years.