Medes

In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.