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Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. Counsellors. Interpreters of the laws. Joseph. xi. 6.—The number seems to have been established at the courts of the Assyrian and Chaldee monarchs. Tobit 12:15. We find their names, Esther 1:10, 14. The history of this queen happened in the reign of Darius Hystaspes. Calmet.—Hand. By this he was to pass sentence, verse 25. Bible.—The Jews were authorized to follow their own laws ( Calmet.) under the Persian dominion, verse 26. Tirinus.
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