Medes

Medes, referring to the people of Media, is mentioned 14x (in the same number of verses).

(All citations are from the NIV)

2 Ki 17:6 - "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes."

2 Ki 18:11 - "he king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River, and in towns of the Medes."

Est. 1:18 - "This very day the Persian and Median women of the nobility who have heard about the queen's conduct will respond to all the king's nobles in the same way. There will be no end of disrespect and discord."

Isa 13:17 - "See, I will stir up against them the Medes, who do not care for silver and have no delight in gold. [Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants nor will they look with compassion on children.]"

Jer 51:11 -"Sharpen the arrows, take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is to destroy Babylon. The LORD will take vengeance, vengeance for his temple."

Jer 51:28 - "Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the countries they rule."

Dan 5:28 - "[This is what these words mean: Mene: . . . Tekel: . . . Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

Dan 5:31 - "[That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain,] and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two."

Dan 6:8 - "Now, O king, issue the decree and put it in writing so that it cannot be altered—in accordance with the laws of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed."

Dan 6:12 - "So they went to the king and spoke to him about his royal decree: "Did you not publish a decree that during the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or man except to you, O king, would be thrown into the lions' den?" The king answered, "The decree stands—in accordance with the laws of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed."

Dan 6:15 - "Then the men went as a group to the king and said to him, "Remember, O king, that according to the law of the Medes and Persians no decree or edict that the king issues can be changed."

Dan 9:1 - "In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom—[in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.]"

Dan 11:1 - "[(No-one supports me against them except Michael, your prince.] And in the first year of Darius the Mede, I took my stand to support and protect him.) ['Now then, I tell you the truth: Three more kings will appear in Persia, and then a fourth, who will be far richer than all the others.']"

Acts 2:9 - "[Utterly amazed, they asked: 'Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native language?] Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, . . ."