[256] Neh. x. 31.
[257] Neh. xiii. 14.
[258] Neh. xiii. 22.
[259] Neh. xiii. 31.
[260] Esther iv. 14.
[261] Ibid.
[262] Psalm cxxxvii. 9.
[263] On the supposition that the writer is not here recording historical facts in the life of Amestris, the real queen of Xerxes, who we know was not murdered.
[264] Esther v. 13.
[265] Esther iii. 15.