OLD TESTAMENT

Esther 1:5

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when the days of the wedding feast were completed, the king made a banquet lasting six days for the people of the nations who were present in the city, in the court of the king’s house,

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Verse 5. Expired, (Feuardent) or in the last week. Menochius. Calmet.—King. The Persian monarchs delighted in agriculture. Cyrus the younger, planted trees at Sardis, and never ate till he had taken some exercise of this or of a military nature. Xenoph. Memor. Cicero Senect.

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