Ezra 6:2
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2 But it was in Ecbatana, the capital in the province of Media, that a scroll was found on which this was written: “A record.
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Tobit 3:7
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Sarah Falsely Accused
7 On the same day, at Ecbatana in Media, it also happened that Sarah, the daughter of Raguel, was reproached by one of her father’s female slaves.(A)
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Judith 1:1
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Arphaxad Fortifies Ecbatana
1 It was the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled over the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh. In those days Arphaxad ruled over the Medes in Ecbatana.(A)
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1 Maccabees 3:38
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Preparations for Battle
38 Lysias chose Ptolemy son of Dorymenes and Nicanor and Gorgias, able men among the Friends of the king,(A)
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1 Maccabees 6:5
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5 Then someone came to him in Persia and reported that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been routed;(A)
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2 Maccabees 8:30
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Judas Defeats Timothy and Bacchides
30 In encounters with the forces of Timothy and Bacchides they killed more than twenty thousand of them and got possession of some exceedingly high strongholds, and they divided a very large amount of plunder, giving to those who had been tortured and to the orphans and widows and also to the aged, shares equal to their own.(A)
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