“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days.”
Commentaries
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The golden scepter - In all the numerous representations of Persian kings at Persepolis the monarch holds a long tapering staff (probably th…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
There is one law of his ... —Literally, one is his law; that is, there is one unvarying…
John Gill
JohnGill
All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces
know
Not only the prin…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
We are prone to shrink from services that are accompanied by danger or loss. But when the cause of Christ and his people demands it, we must take u…
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes