OLD TESTAMENT

Esther 2:19

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Meanwhile, Mordecai served in the courtyard.

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Verse 19. And. Septuagint “But Mardochai,” and so forth Bible.—They say nothing of the gifts, verse 18.—Second. The same process had been observed before, when Vasthi was chosen. Calmet.—Mardochai was perhaps then one of the king’s guards. Bible. verse 11. Tirinus.—This second inquiry is here specified, to introduce the following account. Menochius.

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