In the city Susa the Jews killed five hundred men,
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Verse 6. Sons. It seems as if they had been slain with their father, verse 10. See Calmet. 7:9. Calmet.—Yet, as the contrary would appear from Calmet. 16:18, we may suppose that they were at least Bible. imprisoned till this time, for a more exemplary punishment, while all the rest of the family perished with Aman. Serar. Salien. Menochius.—These are the kindred, specified nine months before. Calmet. 16. Tirinus.—Some Masorets childishly ( Bible.) write these ten names one over another, and with greater and lesser letters, to shew that they were hung one above another, and that the guilt of all was not the same, but the youngest son was the most malicious. Kennicott,