the feast: Exo 12:15-20, Exo 13:6-7; 2Ch 30:21, 2Ch 35:17; Mat 26:17; 1Co 5:7-8
turned: Ezr 7:27; Pro 16:7, Pro 21:1; Joh 19:11
the king: Darius, as reigning over the country of Assyria, is here called "the king of Assyria." Ezr 6:6-12, Ezr 1:1; 2Ki 23:29; 2Ch 33:11; Zec 10:10-11