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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Shushan
The Persian winter capital, east of the Tigris in what is now southwestern Iran, and the Greeks called it Susa. Most of the book of Esther happens here.
The Persian winter capital, east of the Tigris in what is now southwestern Iran, and the Greeks called it Susa. Most of the book of Esther happens here.
Shushan, called Susa by Greek and Roman writers, was the winter capital of the Persian Empire, located east of the Tigris in what is now southwestern Iran. It is the setting for most of the book of Esther, Daniel received a vision there, and Nehemiah was serving as cupbearer in its royal citadel when he learned of Jerusalem's ruined walls. French excavations at the site since the nineteenth century have uncovered the audience hall of Darius and Artaxerxes described in Esther, along with a wealth of Persian and earlier Elamite artifacts, including the stele bearing the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, carried to Susa centuries earlier as war plunder.
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- Nehemiah 1:1
- Esther 1:2
- Esther 1:5
- Esther 2:3
- Esther 2:5
- Esther 2:8
- Esther 3:15
- Esther 4:8
- Esther 4:16
- Esther 8:14
- Esther 8:15
- Esther 9:6
- Esther 9:11
- Esther 9:12
- Esther 9:13
- Esther 9:14
- Esther 9:15
- Esther 9:18
- Daniel 8:2
