* it please the king.  Heb. it be good with the king.
  21  3:9  8:5 
 * from him.  Heb. from before him.  it be not altered.  Heb. it
   pass not away.
  8:8  Da 6:8-15,17 
   Let it be inserted among the permanent laws, and be made a
   part of the constitution of the empire.  The Persians seem to
   have affected such a degree of wisdom in the construction of
   their laws, that they never could be amended, and should never
   be repealed; and this formed the ground of the saying, "The
   laws of the Medes and Persians that change not."

 * another.  Heb. her companion.  that is better.
  1Sa 15:28  1Ki 3:28