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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him,.... Not only a proclamation made, but a law enacted and published by royal authority: and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and Medes that it be not altered; for so it was, that when a law was made, and signed, and sealed, and registered among the laws of the kingdom,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire,.... As it was proper it should, since the report of the queen's deed would be made everywhere: for it is great; the empire consisting of one hundred and twenty seven provinces, Es 1:1, Aben Ezra and Abendana interpret it, "though" it is great, yet the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the saying pleased the king and the princes,.... The king, and the other six princes and counsellors, approved of the proposal, and unanimously agreed to it: and the king did according to the word of Memucan; passed a law according to his advice, and signed and sealed it, and registered it among the laws of the kingdom, not to be revoked.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he sent letters unto all the king's provinces,.... The one hundred and twenty seven provinces, Es 1:1, which, according to the Targum, were written and sealed with his own seal; which is very probable: into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; that is, these letters were written in the...