10So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-19)We are here told what good effect the foregoing sermon had upon Asa. I. He grew more bold for God than he had been. His victory would inspire him with some new degrees of resolution, but this message from God with much more. Now he took courage. he saw how necessary a further reformation was, and what assurance he had of God’s presence with him in it; and this made him daring, and helped him over…
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