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In every province, wherever the king`s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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A Nation in Deep Mourning
The verse describes a universal and profound grief among the Jews. Commentators explain that this wasn't a fleeting emotion but an all-consuming practice. The fasting, weeping, and wailing were constant, and many people abandoned their beds to lie in sackcloth and ashes, demonstrating the depth of their despair and the gravity of the royal decree.
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And in every province wherever the king's commandment and his decree came For destroying the Jews on such a day, in eve…
Presbyterian
Mordecai avowed his relation to the Jews. Public calamities, which oppress the church of God, should affect our hearts more than any private afflic…
