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Beyond the River

· REGION
Mentions
16
Chapters
7
Books
2

A term used in biblical and Persian administrative contexts to refer to the region west of the Euphrates River, including Judea and surrounding territories. When the Jews returned from exile under Persian rule, they fell under the authority of a governor "beyond the river." The phrase marks geographical and political boundaries in the restoration period.

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"and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth, wrote."
Ezra 4

Every chapter

In canonical order across 2 books

Ezra
4
v. 10
5
v. 3
6
v. 6
7
v. 21
8
v. 36
Nehemiah
2
v. 7
3
v. 7

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