The king now learned, perhaps for the first time, that his favorite was a Jewess.

Although the enemy ... – that is, "although the ene…

We are sold. —See above, Esther 3:9.

To be destroyed... —Literally, to destroy and to kill,…

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain,
and to perish
She mak…

If the love of life causes earnest pleadings with those that can only kill the body, how fervent should our prayers be to Him, who is able to destr…