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SCEPTRE, as tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of shçbel, may stand either for a short ornamental sceptre such as appears in some representations of the Assyrian king, or for a long staff reaching to the ground, which characterizes some portrayals of the Persian monarchs. The long sceptre is simply an ornamented staff, the short one is a development of the Club or mace. On Gen_49:10 See Lawgiver and Shiloh. On the difficulty of approaching the presence of the Persian kings referred to in Est_4:11, cf. also Herod. iii. 118, 140.