Esth 8:8

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in the king's name.

Esth 3:12; 1Kgs 21:8

may no man reverse.

No, not the king himself; and this was the reason that the king was forced not to reverse, but to give a contradictory decree; that if the Jews, pursuant to the first decree, were assaulted, they might legitimately, by virtue of the second, defend themselves, slay their enemies, and even take the spoil.

Esth 8:5; Esth 1:19; Dan 6:8; Dan 6:12-15; 2Tim 2:19; Heb 6:17; Heb 6:18