Verse 5For the king - I see I am as it were no king. I can do nothing against you, you will do what you please. Verse 10Thirty men - Probably the king commanded Ebed - melech to take thirty men to guard him against any opposition. Verse 19Lest they - Lest the Chaldeans should deliver me into the hands of those Jews which have fallen to them. Verse 22The women - Thou that art afraid of the insultings of men, shalt fall under the insultings of the women. Thy friends - For this thou mayest thank thy priests, and false prophets. And they - Have forsaken thee, every one shifting for himself.