Commentary for Megillah 37:15

מ"ד כולה מה ראה אחשורוש שנשתמש בכלים של בית המקדש על ככה משום דחשיב שבעים שנין ולא איפרוק ומה הגיע אליהם דקטל ושתי

He who says that the whole of it must be read [interprets thus]: What did Ahashverosh see to make him use the vessels of the Temple? “In that matter”, in that he reckoned seventy years and they had not yet been redeemed; “And what came upon them?” That he killed Vashti.

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