Nehemiah 2:3

And said unto the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lies waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Live; an usual salutation, Daniel iii. 9., and v. 10. So Ælian (var. i. 32.) says, "O king Artaxerxes, mayst thou reign for ever. " Father, ver. 5. He knew that the Persians showed great regard to the dead, (Calmet; Tirinus) whose bodies they sometimes cover with wax, and keep in their house, (Cic. Tusc. i.; Alex. Genial iii. 2.) or inter. (Herodotus i. 140.)

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