Esther 1:19 (KJV)

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If it please the king let there go a royal commandment from him and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes that it be not altered That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she

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it please the king. Heb. it be good with the king. Es 1:21 Es 3:9 Es 8:5

from him. Heb. from before him. it be not altered. Heb. itpass not away. Es 8:8 Da 6:8-15 Da 6:17

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

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such a degree of wisdom in the construction of their laws, that they never could be amended, and should never be repealed; and this formed the ground of the saying, "The laws of the Medes and Persians that change not."

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