2Ki 6:15, 7:4, Est 4:11, 16, Joh 12:27, Phili 1:23 | TSK | STEP

2 Kings 6:15

servant. or, minister.

3:11; 5:20,27; Ex 24:13; 1Ki 19:21; Mt 20:26-28; Ac 13:5

Alas.

5; 2Ch 20:12; Ps 53:5; Mt 8:26

2 Kings 7:4

we will enter.

Jer 14:18

let us fall.

1Ch 12:19; Jer 37:13,14

if they save us.

Es 4:16; Jer 8:14; Jon 3:9; Lu 15:17-19

we shall but die.

2Sa 14:14; Heb 9:27

Esther 4:11

shall come.Herodotus informs us, that ever since the reign of Deioces, king of Media, for the security of the king's person, it was enacted that no one should be admitted into his presence; but that if any one had business with him, he should transact it through the medium of his ministers.

the inner court.

5:1

one law.

Da 2:9

the king shall.

5:2; 8:4

the golden sceptre.That the kings of Persia carried a golden sceptre, we have the following proof in Xenophon: [Hoti ou tode to chrysoun skeptron to men basileian diasozon estin, all hoi pistoi philoi skeptron basileusin alethestaton kai asphalestaton.] "It is not (said Cyrus to his son Cambyses) the golden sceptre that saves the kingdom; but faithful friends are the truest and best sceptre of the kingdom."

but I.

1:19; 2:14; 1Pe 3:7

Esther 4:16

present. Heb. found. fast.

2Ch 20:3; Isa 22:12; Joe 1:14,15; 2:12-17; Jon 3:4-9

eat nor drink.

5:1; Mt 12:40; Ac 9:9; 27:33

I also.

Ge 18:19; Jos 24:15; Ac 10:7

if I perish.If I lose my life in the attempt to save my people, I shall lose it cheerfully. I see it is my duty to make the attempt; and, come what will, I am resolved to do it.

Ge 43:14; 1Sa 19:5; 2Sa 10:12; Lu 9:24; Ac 20:24; 21:13; Ro 16:4

Php 2:30