1 Esdras 3:4
“Then three yong men that were of the guard, that kept the kings body, spake one to another:”
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1 Esdras 3:4 Context
2And to all the gouernours and captaines, and lieutenants that were vnder him, from Iudia vnto Ethiopia, of an hundreth twenty and seuen prouinces. 3And when they had eaten and drunken, and being satisfied were gone home, then Darius the king went into his bed chamber, and slept, and soone after awaked. 4Then three yong men that were of the guard, that kept the kings body, spake one to another: 5Let euery one of vs speake a sentence: hee that shall ouercome, & whose sentence shall seeme wiser then the others, vnto him shall the king Darius giue great gifts, and great things in token of victory: 6As to be clothed in purple, to drink in golde, and to sleepe vpon golde, and a chariot with bridles of golde, and an head-tyre of fine linen, and a chaine about his necke:
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Then three young men, that were of the guard that kept the king's body, spake one to another;
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