Insomnia

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• INSTANCES OF
• AhasuerusEsther 6:1
• NebuchadnezzarDaniel 6:18

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Esther 6:1

   That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

   ›Commentary on Esther 6:12 voices

   “Sleep was removed from the eyes of Ahasuerus, whom the Seventy call Artaxerxes, that he might turn over the memoirs of his faithful ministers and come on Mordecai, by whose evidence he was delivered from a conspiracy; and that thus Esther might be more acceptable and the whole people of the Jews escape imminent death.

   “On that night could not the king sleep,....

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2. Daniel 6:18

   Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from him.

   ›Commentary on Daniel 6:182 voices

   “He is sorry for the evil which he himself had caused, yet takes no steps to remedy it. There are many such halters between good and bad, who are ill at ease in their sins, yet go forward in them, and are drawn on by others.

   “Verse 18. "And the king departed to his own house, and went to bed without partaking of supper..." How sincere was the king's good will, when he would not touch food night or day or grant his eyelids sleep, but as long as the prophet was in danger he himself remained in a state of sympathetic suspense. But if a king who knew not God did such a thing for another man whose deliverance he desired, how much more ought we to implore God's mercy for our own sins with fastings and watchings.

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