For as you are sent by the king, and by 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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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Counsellors. Interpreters of the laws. (Josephus, xi. 6.)
The number seems to have been established at the courts of the Assyrian and Chaldean monarchs, Tobias xii. 15. We find their names, Esther i. 10, 14. The history of this queen happened in the reign of Darius Hystaspes. (Calmet)
Hand. By this he was to pass sentence, ver. 25. (Haydock)
The Jews were authorized to follow their own laws (Calmet) under the Persian dominion, ver. 26. (Tirinus)
