Esther 1:3

A.M. 3542. B.C. 462. he made.

2:18; Ge 40:20; 1Ki 3:15; Da 5:1; Mr 6:21

of Persia.

14; Ezr 1:2; Isa 21:2; Jer 51:11; Da 5:28; 8:20

the nobles.

Da 3:2,3; 6:1,6,7

Esther 10:2

all the acts.

1Ki 11:41; 22:39

advanced him. Heb. made him great.

8:15; 9:4; Ps 18:35; Da 2:48

in the book.

2:23; 6:1; 1Ki 14:19

Media.Media, which comprehended the modern Azerbijan and part of Irak, was a celebrated country of Asia, bounded on the north by the Caspian Sea and Armenia, west by Assyria, south by Susiana and Persia, and east by Hyrcania and Parthia, extending from 30 degrees to 37 degrees N. lat. and 45 degrees to 53 degrees E. long.

Persia.Persia Proper, now Fars, was but a small province, being bounded on the north by Media, west by Susiana, south by the Persian Gulf, and east by Caramania, extending from 27 degrees to 33 degrees N. lat. and 50 degrees to 55 degrees E. long. But the Persian empire in its ancient state extended from the Hellespont to the Indus, above 2,800 miles, and from Pontus to the shores of Arabia, above 2,000 miles; comprehending a multitude of various nations.

Isaiah 13:17

I will.

3-5; 21:2; 41:25; Jer 50:9; 51:11,27,28; Da 5:28-31

shall not regard.

Pr 6:34,35

Isaiah 21:2

grievous. Heb. hard.

Ps 60:3; Pr 13:15

the treacherous.

24:16; 33:1; 1Sa 24:13; Jer 51:44,48,49,53; Re 13:10

Go up.

13:2-4,17,18; Jer 50:14,34; 49:34; 51:11,27,28; Da 5:28; 8:20

all the.

14:1-3; 35:10; 47:6; Ps 12:5; 79:11; 137:1-3; Jer 31:11,12,20,25

Jer 45:3; 51:3,4; La 1:22; Mic 7:8-10; Zec 1:15,16

Daniel 5:28-30

PERES.Peres,"he was divided," pronounced paras, denoted Persians, who seem evidently referred to.

Thy.

31; 6:28; 8:3,4,20; 9:1; Isa 13:17; 21:2; 45:1,2

they clothed.

7,16

1,2; Isa 21:4-9; 47:9; Jer 51:11,31,39,57

Daniel 6:8

establish.

Es 3:12; 8:10; Isa 10:1

according.

12,15; Es 1:19; 8:3

altereth not. Chal. passeth not.

Mt 24:35

Daniel 8:3-4

I lifted.

10:5; Nu 24:2; Jos 5:13; 1Ch 21:16; Zec 1:18; 2:1; 5:1,5,9; 6:1

a ram.The Medo-Persian empire, of which a ram was the ensign; and a ram's head with horns, one higher than the other, is still to be seen on the ruins of Persepolis.

20; 2:39; 7:5

one.Media was the more ancient kingdom; but Persia, after Cyrus, was the most considerable.

5:31; 6:28; Ezr 1:2; 4:5; Es 1:3; Isa 13:17; 21:2; 44:28; Jer 51:11

the other. Heb. the second.

pushing.

5:30; 7:5; 11:2; Isa 45:1-5; Jer 50:1-51:64

neither.

8:7; Job 10:7; Ps 7:2; 50:22; Mic 5:8

but.

5:19; 11:3,16,36; Isa 10:13,14

Daniel 8:20

3; 11:1,2

Daniel 9:1

1 Daniel, considering the time of the captivity,

3 makes confession of sins,

16 and prays for the restoration of Jerusalem.

20 Gabriel informs him of the seventy weeks.

A.M. 3466. B.C. 538. Darius.

1:21; 5:31; 6:1,28; 11:1

Ahasuerus.This was the Astyages of the heathen historians; as we learn from Tobit 14:15, where the taking of Nineveh is ascribed to Nebuchadnezzar and Assuerus, who were the same with Nabopolassar and Astyages.

which. or, in which he, etc.
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