Acts 2:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Elamites; descended from Elam, Genesis 10:22, thought to be the Persians. Mesopotamia; between the two rivers, Tigris and Euphrates. Judea; the apostles being Galileans, spake a distinct dialect from the rest of the Jews, till now enabled to speak as they did. Asia; some particular district, at that time especially so called, as 1 Peter 1:1; otherwise the places before named are in Asia in a larger sense.

Acts 2:9

9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,