Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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Esther 1:5
Feasts on this extensive scale were not unusual in the East. Cyrus is said on one occasion to have feasted "all the Persians." Even ordinarily, the later Persian monarchs entertained 15,000 persons at their table.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Esther 1:5:
1 Chronicles 29:1
Nehemiah 1:1
Daniel 8:2
Daniel 8:2
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