Shushan
Named from its abundant lilies. Capital of Elam, Cissia, or
Susiana. Asshur-bani-pal, Esarhaddon's successor, in
inscriptions says he took Shur and gives its ground plan
sculptured (Layard Nin. 452), 600 B.C. In Belshazzar's last
year Daniel was at Shushan in the palace (not actually, but
transported in spirit) when he saw the vision (Daniel 8...
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a lily, the Susa of Greek and Roman writers, once the
capital of
Elam. It lay in the uplands of Susiana, on the east
of the
Tigris, about 150 miles to the north of the head of
the Persian
Gulf. It is the modern Shush, on the northwest of
Shuster. Once
a magnificent city, it is now an immense mass of
ruins. Here
Daniel saw one of his visio...
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(a lily), is said to have received its name from the
abundance of the lily (shushan or shushanah) in its
neighborhood. It was originally the capital of the country
called in Scripture Elam, and by the classical writers Susis
or Susiana. In the time of Daniel Susa was in the possession
of the Babylonians, to whom Elam had probably passed at the...
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1. Capitol of the Medo-Persian Empire
Es 1:2,3; 8:15
-2. King's palace at
Ne 1:1; Es 1:2,5; 2:5,8; 4:8,16; 8:14,15; 9:11,15...
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