| Esther 6:4
| And the king said immediately: Who is in the court? for Aman was coming in to the inner court of the king's house, to speak to the king, that he might order Mardochai to be hanged upon the gibbet which was prepared for him.
| Inner court. To which only such favourites and noblemen had access. (Herodotus 3:72., and 84.) This king had himself come thither with six others, when they conspired to destroy Smerdis. Hebrew, etc., read, "the outward court," in which Aman was, till he heard the king was awake, and called for him. (Calmet)
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