Esther 1:20
And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
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Gill's Exposition
And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire,.... As it was proper it should, since the report of the queen's deed would be made everywhere:
for it is…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
decree Heb. pithgam, a loan-word from Old Persian patigâma(patigam, to come to, arrive). It occurs in its Aramaic form (pithgâmâ) in Ezr 4:17; Ezr 5:7; Ezr 5:11.
kingdom The usual translation of the…
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