The Sleepless Night
Esther 6:1
On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles…


How many different causes or occasions there may be of the sleepless night! Some cannot sleep in the remembrance of recent sin. Some are kept waking by great sorrow. Some by brain excitement. Some in very weariness of overwork.

(A. Raleigh, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: 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.

WEB: On that night, the king couldn't sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.




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