Isaiah 13:17

The Scriptures 2009

“See, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they do not delight in it.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:6

In the ninth year of Hoshĕa, the sovereign of Ashshur captured Shomeron and exiled Yisra’ĕl to Ashshur, and settled them in Ḥalaḥ and Ḥaḇor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

Isaiah 21:2

A distressing vision is revealed to me: the treacherous betrays, and the ravager ravages. Go up, O Ěylam! Besiege, O Media! All the groaning I bring to an end.

Isaiah 41:25

“I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes; from the rising of the sun he calls on My Name. And he comes against princes as though mortar, as the potter treads clay.

Jeremiah 25:25

and all the sovereigns of Zimri, and all the sovereigns of Ěylam, and all the sovereigns of the Medes;

Jeremiah 50:3

For a nation shall come up against her from the north, which shall make her land waste, and none shall dwell in it. They shall flee, they shall go, both man and beast.

Jeremiah 50:30

“Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of battle shall perish in that day,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 50:42

“They strengthen their bow and spear, they are cruel and they show no compassion. They sound like the roaring sea, and ride on horses, set in array, like a man for the battle, against you, O daughter of Baḇel.

Jeremiah 50:9

“For look, I am stirring up and bringing up against Baḇel an assembly of great nations from a land of the north, and they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be captured – their arrows are like those of a mighty skilled man, not returning empty-handed.

Jeremiah 51:11

Polish the arrows! Put on the shields! יהוה has stirred up the spirit of the sovereigns of the Medes. For His plan is against Baḇel to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of יהוה, the vengeance for His Hĕḵal.

Daniel 5:26

“This is the interpretation of each word: MENĚ – Elah has numbered your reign, and put an end to it.