19 But when he, with the corroboration of his king’se Friends, pointed out that while it was still night he had carried out completely the order given him, 20 the king,f possessed by a savagery worse than that of Phalaris, said that the Jewsg were benefited by today’s sleep, “but,” he added, “tomorrow without delay prepare the elephants in the same way for the destruction of the lawless Jews!”