Esther 6:1 (KJV)
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On that nightcould notthe king sleepand he commandedto bringthe bookof recordsof the chroniclesand they were read beforethe king
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that night. Es 5:8 Ge 22:14 1Sa 23:26 1Sa 23:27 Isa 41:17 Ro 11:33
could not the king sleep. Heb. the king's sleep fled away. Da 2:1 Da 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. Es 2:23 Mal 3:16
12 Complaining of this, his friends tell him of his final destiny.
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