decree prescript. Only here and Ecclesiastes 8:11.
it is great: i.e. the decree is important.
ALL THE WIVES SHALL GIVE. This is the first of the five Acrostics (App-6), exhibiting in the initials the Divine name. See App-60.
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Esther 1:20
20 And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.