Esther 4:11 (KJV)

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All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces do know that whosoever whether man or woman shall come unto the king into the inner court who is not called there is one law of his to put him to death except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre that he may live but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days

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the inner court. Es 5:1

one law. Da 2:9

the king shall. Es 5:2 Es 8:4

but I. Es 1:19 Es 2:14 1Pe 3:7

shall come.Herodotus informs us, that ever since the reign of Deioces, king of Media, for the security of the king's person, it was enacted that no one should be admitted into his presence; but that if any one had business with him, he should transact it through the medium of his ministers. the golden sceptre.That the kings of Persia carried a golden sceptre, we have the following proof in Xenophon: [Hoti ou tode to chrysoun skeptron to men basileian diasozon estin, all hoi pistoi philoi skeptron basileusin alethestaton kai asphalestaton.] "It is not (said Cyrus to his son Cambyses) the golden sceptre that saves the kingdom; but faithful friends are the truest and best sceptre of the kingdom."

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