Ezra 4:21 - Exposition

Until another commandment shall be given . It can scarcely be supposed that the Pseudo-Smerdis had any intention of issuing "another commandment;" but, since "the laws of the Medes and Persians," as a general rule, "altered not" ( Esther 1:19 ; Daniel 6:15 ), it may well be that the clause before us was one inserted as a matter of form in most decrees, to prevent them from being irrevocable.