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1:6 [Where were] white, green, and blue, [hangings], fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the {d} beds [were of] gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
(d) Which they used in those countries instead of tables.
1:6 Beds - For in those eastern countries, they did not then sit at tables as we do, but rested or leaned upon beds or couches.
1:1-9 The pride of Ahasuerus's heart rising with the grandeur of his kingdom, he made an extravagant feast. This was vain glory. Better is a dinner of herbs with quietness, than this banquet of wine, with all the noise and tumult that must have attended it. But except grace prevails in the heart, self-exaltation and self-indulgence, in one form or another, will be the ruling principle. Yet none did compel; so that if any drank to excess, it was their own fault. This caution of a heathen prince, even when he would show his generosity, may shame many called Christians, who, under pretence of sending the health round, send sin round, and death with it. There is a woe to them that do so; let them read it, and tremble, Hab 2:15,16.
Beds Black Blue Bordered Columns Cords Cotton Couches Fastened Fine Gold Green Hangings Held Linen Marble Material Pavement Pillars Precious Purple Red Rings Shell Silver Stones White Yellow
Beds Black Blue Bordered Columns Cords Cotton Couches Fastened Fine Gold Green Hangings Held Linen Marble Material Pavement Pillars Precious Purple Red Rings Shell Silver Stones White Yellow
