OLD TESTAMENT

Esther 4:14

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For if you keep quiet on this occasion, help and protection will come to the Jews from another place; but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you have been made queen for this occasion?’”

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Verse 14. Occasion. Wonderful confidence! Greek “if thou wilt not hearken ( Calmet. to me; ( Bible.) or, if thou obstinately despise) at this time, the Jews shall be assisted and protected by some,” and so forth Bible.—As this. So Joseph was raised up in Egypt, ( Calmet.) that he might save all his family. Bible.

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