OLD TESTAMENT

Esther 10:3

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Mordecai was viceroy to King Ahasuerus, and was a great man in the kingdom, honored by the Jews, and lived his life loved by all his nation.

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Verse 3. Seed. Benjamin (Itin.) informs us, that both he and the queen were buried in the chief city of the Medes, which he calls “the great Hamda;” perhaps the province Mardochæa, (or Αμορδακαι. Ptol. verse 20.) near the Persian gulf, may have been called after this statesman. Tirinus.

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Greek succeded to Or, came into the place of.

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the passages in brackets are not in the Hebrew.

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