18The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
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So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-24)Here we have, I. The orders which the king of Persia gave, in answer to the information sent him by the Samaritans against the Jews. He suffered himself to be imposed upon by their fraud and falsehood, took no care to examine the allegations of their petition concerning that which the Jews were now doing, but took it for granted that the charge was true, and was very willing to gratify them with a…
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