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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Esther 6:1

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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that night: Est 5:8; Gen 22:14; Sa1 23:26, Sa1 23:27; Isa 41:17; Rom 11:33 could not the king sleep: Heb. the king's sleep fled away, Dan 2:1, Dan 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. Est 2:23; Mal 3:16 Esther 6:2
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