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**done** = being done.
**bitter cry.** Not (we may be sure) without confession and prayer, as with Nehemiah ([Esther 1](../../../kjv/esther/1) ), and [Daniel 9](../../../kjv/daniel/9) ).

**even** = as far as.

**commandments word.** See note on [Esther 1:12](../../../kjv/esther/1/12) .
**decree** = Imperial decree. Hebrew. *dath* . See notes on [Esther 1:8](../../../kjv/esther/1/8) ; [Esther 2:8](../../../kjv/esther/2/8) .
**and.** Note the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton* ( App-6 ), to emphasize the greatness and universality of the mourning.
**fasting, &c.** These were the accompaniments of true repentance.

**maids.** See note on [Esther 2:4](../../../kjv/esther/2/4) .
**chamberlains** = eunuchs.

**commandment** = charge. Hebrew. *zavah.* See [Esther 3:2](../../../kjv/esther/3/2) .

**the sum of the money** = the exact sum of the money. Mordecai knew of this, but how we cannot tell. He evidently did not know that the king had made Harnan a present of it ([Esther 3:11](../../../kjv/esther/3/11) ).

**law** = Imperial decree. Hebrew. *dath* . See note on [Esther 1:8](../../../kjv/esther/1/8) .

**commanded.** Hebrew. *'amar.* See note on [Esther 1:10](../../../kjv/esther/1/10) .
**thyself** = thy soul. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .

**enlargement** = respite.
**who knoweth . . . ?** Note the Figure of speech *Erotesis* ( App-6 ), for emphasis. Used here of hope and trust in God and His overruling grace.

**three days, night or day.** The Jerusalem Talmud says "a day and night together make up a *nulctke-meron,* and that any part of such period is counted as a whole". Compare [1 Samuel 30:12](../../../kjv/1-samuel/30/12) , [1 Samuel 30:13](../../../kjv/1-samuel/30/13) . Jon 1:17 . [Matthew 12:40](../../../kjv/matthew/12/40) .
**I perish.** See note on [Esther 3:13](../../../kjv/esther/3/13) .

**went his way** = passed over: i.e. over the river Ulai, on which Shushan is built, to the Jewish quarter, to accomplish his part of the compact.

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