Matthew Poole and continuators on Esther 6:1
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Esther6:1
1 ON that night could not the king sleep , and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles : and they were read before the king .
How vain are all the contrivances and indeavours of this foolish impotent man against the wise and omnipotent God, who hath the hearts and hands of Kings and all men perfectly at his dispose, and can by such trivial accidents (as they are accounted) change their minds, and produce such momentous and terrible effects!
His mind being troubled he knew not how, nor why, he chuseth this for a divertisement, God putting this thought & [illegible: 1 word] to him, for otherwise he might have diverted himself, as he used to do at other times, with his Wives or Concubines, or voices and instruments of musick; which was far more agreeable to his temper.
Until the morning when he intended to rise out of his bed.
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