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Esther 6:1

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that night: Esther 5:8; Genesis 22:14; 1 Samuel 23:26-27; Isaiah 41:17; Romans 11:33

could not the king sleep: Heb. the king's sleep fled away, Daniel 2:1, Daniel 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. Esther 2:23; Malachi 3:16

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