1; Ahasuerus, reading in the chronicles of the good service
done by Mordecai, takes care for his reward.
4; Haman, coming to sue that Mordecai might be hanged, gives
counsel that he might do him honour.
12; Complaining of this, his friends tell him of his final
destiny.
* that night.
5:8 Ge 22:14 1Sa 23:26,27 Isa 41:17 Ro 11:33
* could not the king sleep. Heb. the king's sleep fled away.
Da 2:1 6:18
* the book of records.
As chronicles were composed among the Persians, a more
instructive and interesting work could not be brought before
the king; because they were all written in verse, and were
generally the work of the most eminent poets of the empire.
2:23 Mal 3:16
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