place
Susa
שׁוּשַׁן
Susa, the capital city of the Persian Empire, where Esther lived and the events of her book took place (Esth. 1:2; Dan. 8:2).
- verses
- 20
- first named
- Ezra 4:9
- last named
- Daniel 8:2
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 32.19°N · 48.26°E
Shush (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Susa in the text
Susa, also known as Shushan, was the capital city of the Persian Empire during the reigns of Darius I, Xerxes I (Ahasuerus), and Artaxerxes I. It is mentioned in the books of Nehemiah, Esther, Daniel, and Ezra. Nehemiah served as cupbearer to King Artaxerxes in Susa (Neh. 1:1). The events of the Book of Esther took place primarily in Susa, where Esther became queen and saved her people from Haman's plot (Esth. 1-9). Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat took place while he was in Susa (Dan. 8:2). Susa is also mentioned in Ezra 4:9 among the places from which people were sent to hinder the rebuilding of Jerusalem. The city was located in modern-day southwestern Iran and served as a royal residence and administrative center for the Persian kings.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Contains
Stands in the same events as
- Judah5 events
- Adar3 events
- Ahasuerus2 events
- Daniel1 event
- Understanding1 event
- Mordecai1 event
- Elam1 event
- Execution1 event
- Belshazzar1 event
- Ulai1 event
The pattern
Where Susa is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
20 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in Ezra (1), Nehemiah (1), Esther (17) and Daniel (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 20, across 4 books. The name is written 22 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Nehemiah 1Susa was the citadel where Nehemiah received the news and prayed.
- Esther 3Susa received the edict ordering the destruction of the Jews, and the city fell into confusion while the king and Haman drank.
- Esther 4Susa is where the written decree was issued and where Esther calls the Jews to fast.
- Esther 8Susa received the edict, then shouted and rejoiced when Mordecai emerged from the king’s presence in royal dress.
- Esther 9Susa saw five hundred men killed, a further three hundred killed the next day, and Haman’s ten sons hanged.
- Daniel 8Susa appeared in Daniel’s vision as the citadel where he found himself.
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