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Esther 5:11

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

The multitude of his children. Literally, "of his sons." Of these we see by Esther 9:7-10 that he had ten. To be the father of many sons was accounted highly honourable by the Persians (Herod; 1:136).

How he had advanced him above the princes. See above, Esther 3:1.

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