Esther 4:11

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All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Spoil. This was retaliating, as they were to have been treated in like manner. (Calmet) Such were the barbarous customs of the country. (Haydock) It might not still be lawful thus to involve the innocent with the guilty, though the king did not ill in allowing the Jews to stand up in their own defence, 2 Kings xxi. 6. Some think that they were only to prevent the execution of the former edict, which could not be revoked. See chap. iii. (Calmet) A form of trial was observed, chap. xvi. 20. (Menochius)

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