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How Nave’s arranged it

• A bearer of a messageJob 9:25Jeremiah 51:31
• Of Hezekiah2 Chronicles 30:62 Chronicles 30:10
• Of AhasuerusEsther 3:13Esther 3:15Esther 8:10Esther 8:14

The passages, in Bible order (8)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 8 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 2 Chronicles 30:6

   So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.

   ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 30:62 voices

   “So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah,....

   “So the posts went - רצים ratsim, the runners or couriers; persons who were usually employed to carry messages; men who were light of foot, and confidential.

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2. 2 Chronicles 30:10

   And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people scorned and mocked them.

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   “So the posts passed from city to city, through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun,....

   “Accordingly, among the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Zebulun, Hezekiah's messengers met with open insults and ill usage. Many, however, in these very districts, as well as throughout the kingdom of the ten tribes, generally complied with the invitation; while, in the kingdom of Judah, there was one unanimous feeling of high expectation and pious delight.

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3. Esther 3:13

   And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

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   “And the letters were sent by post into all the king's provinces,....

   “[Daniel 7:5] "And behold another beast like a bear stood up on one side; and there were three rows in his mouth and in his teeth; and they said to him: 'Arise up and devour flesh in abundance.'" The second beast resembling a bear is the same as that of which we read in the vision of the statue (2:32): "His chest and arms were of silver." In the former case the comparison was based on the hardness of the metal, in this case on the ferocity of the bear.

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4. Esther 3:15

   The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.

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   “The post went out, being hastened by the king's command,....

   "And the decree was immediately issued in Shushan; and the king and Haman were attending the feast while all the Jews in the city were crying." This is what the Savior preached to his disciples in the Gospel: "Amen, amen I say to you that …

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5. Esther 8:10

   Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.

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   “And he wrote in the King Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring,....

   “The month of Sivan, which comes third after Nisan in the Hebrew calendar, is the same one the Greeks call Thessaroi and the Romans Junius. On the twenty-third day of that month new letters were dictated by Mordecai in order to refute the earlier letters …

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6. Esther 8:14

   The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.

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   “So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out,.... Or on the mules, which in the Persian language were called "ahashteranim"; See Gill on Est 8:10, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment; who gave them a special order to make what haste they could, that the Jews might have time to prepare for their defence, and their enemies be the more intimidated: and the decree was given at Shushan the palace; the king's counsellors agreeing to it, and perhaps signing it, as they did the former; see Est 3:15.

   “Moreover, what follows next—"And the king's edict was published in Shushan"— means that the domain of the heavenly king rules over and governs the entire world: "everything has been placed under his jurisdiction, and there is no one who can resist his will" (Esther 13); …

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7. Job 9:25

   My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

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   “Now my days are swifter than a post: they are fled away, they have seen no good. For the business of a post is to tell what is coming after; and so all of the Elect that were born before the coming of the Redeemer, in that either by mode of life only, or by word of mouth likewise, they bore tidings of Him, were like a kind of post in the world.

   “Now my days are swifter than a post,....

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8. Jeremiah 51:31

   One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.

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   “One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another,....

   “The royal palace was a strong fortification in the heart of the city. The messengers thus met one another. At one end - Rather, from all sides, entirely, completely.

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