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So he spoke to King Ahasuerus, saying, “There is a nation scattered among the nations in all your kingdom, and their laws differ from all the other nations. They disobey the king’s laws. It is not expedient for the king to tolerate them.
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Verse 8. Another, as the ten tribes were from Juda, or rather ( Bible.) they were scattered about the empire. Calmet.—Hebrew “and dispersed; and their laws are different from all other people’s; neither do they observe the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to tolerate them.” Bible.—These are the old calumnies repeated by Tacitus, (Hist. v.) and ably refuted by Josephus. c. Ap. Almost all Israel still continued about Media. Few had taken advantage of the decree of Cyrus.
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