13Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times,(for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
Esther 1:13 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 10-22)We have here a damp to all the mirth of Ahasuerus’s feast; it ended in heaviness, not as Job’s children’s feast by a wind from the wilderness, not as Belshazzar’s by a hand-writing on the wall, but by is own folly. An unhappy falling out there was, at the end of the feast, between the king and queen, which broke of the feast abruptly, and sent the guests away silent and ashamed. I. It was certainl...
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