Est 7:5-8:14, 9:13-14 | TSK | STEP | Who is he. that durst, etc. Heb. whose heart hath filled him.

before me. Heb. with me. they covered Haman's.When a criminal was condemned by a Roman judge, he was delivered to the serjeant with these words: {I, lictor, caput obnubito arbori infelici suspendito,} "Go, sergeant, cover his head, and hang him on the accursed tree."

6:12; Job 9:24; Isa 22:17

Harbonah.

1:10

Harbona. one of the chamberlains.

6:14; 2Ki 9:32

Behold.

5:14; Job 27:20-23; Ps 7:15,16; 35:8; 141:10; Pr 11:5,6

gallows. Heb. tree. who had spoken.

2:21-23; 6:2

Hang him thereon.

9:25; 1Sa 17:51; Ps 7:15,16; 9:15,16; 35:8; 37:35,36; 73:19

Pr 11:5,6; Da 6:7,24

Then was the king's.

Jud 15:7; Eze 5:13; Zec 6:8

Esther 8:1-14

1 Mordecai is advanced.

3 Esther makes suit to reverse Haman's letters.

7 Ahasuerus grants to the Jews to defend themselves.

15 Mordecai's honour, and the Jews' joy.

give the house.

Job 27:16,17; Ps 39:6; 49:6-13; Pr 13:22; 28:8; Ec 2:18,19

Lu 12:20

came before.

1:14; 2:7,15

his ring.

3:10; Ge 41:42; Isa 22:19-22; Lu 15:22

Esther set.

2Sa 9:7-10; Ps 37:34; Ec 2:18,19-26; 5:13,14; Da 2:48

fell.

1Sa 25:24; 2Ki 4:27

besought him with tears. Heb. she wept and besought him.

Isa 38:2; Ho 12:4; Heb 5:7

mischief.

3:8-15; 7:4

held out.

4:11; 5:2

and, if I.

7:3; Ex 33:13,16; 1Sa 20:29

I be pleasing.

2:4,17

letters. Heb. device.

3:12,13

which he wrote. or, who wrote.

For how.

Ge 44:34; Jer 4:19; 9:1; Lu 19:41,42; Ro 9:2,3; 10:1

endure to see. Heb. be able that I may see. the evil.

7:4; Ne 2:3

Behold.

1; Pr 13:22

him they have hanged.

7:10; Ga 3:13

in the king's name.

3:12; 1Ki 21:8

may no man reverse.No, not the king himself; and this was the reason that the king was forced not to reverse, but to give a contradictory decree; that if the Jews, pursuant to the first decree, were assaulted, they might legitimately, by virtue of the second, defend themselves, slay their enemies, and even take the spoil.

5; 1:19; Da 6:8,12-15; 2Ti 2:19; Heb 6:17,18

the king's.

3:12

and to the lieutenants.

1:1,22; 3:12,13; Da 6:1

India.The Hebrew word {Hoddo,} in Syriac, {Hendoo,} and in Arabic, {Hind,} is rendered India by all the versions. India, or Hindostan, is a large country of the south of Asia, extending from north to south about 2,400 miles, and from east to west 1,800, between 8 degrees and 35 degrees N. lat. and 68 degrees and 92 degrees E. long.; being bounded on the west by the Indus, east by the Birman empire and Thibet, north by the Indian Caucasus, and south by the Indian Ocean. It is probable, however, that all the country east of the Indus was anciently called India.

and according.

1:22; 3:12; 2Ki 18:26; Da 4:1; 1Co 14:9-11

in the king.

1Ki 21:8; Ec 8:4; Da 4:1

by posts.

3:13; 2Ch 30:6; Job 9:25; Jer 51:21

mules.{Rechesh,} in Syriac, {rechesha,} probably denotes a swift horse.

camels.{Achashteranim,} from the Persian {akhash,} large, and {aster,} a mule, probably, as Bochart supposes, denotes a large mule.

young dromedaries.{Beney harammachim,} "the sons of mares," as the word {ramakat} denotes in Arabic; probably an expletive of the preceeding word.

Isa 60:6; 66:20; Jer 2:23

to gather.

9:2-16

to destroy.

Ps 37:14,15; 68:3; 137:8; 146:6-9; Eze 39:10

and to take the spoil.

3:13; 9:10,15,16; Isa 10:6

one day.

9:1; Ex 15:9,10; Jud 1:6,7

upon the thirteenth.

3:13-15

published. Heb. revealed. avenge themselves.

Jud 16:28; Ps 37:14,15; 68:23; 92:10,11; 149:6-9; Lu 18:7; Re 6:10

being hastened.

1Sa 21:8; Ec 9:10

Shushan.

1:2; 2:3; 3:15; Ne 1:1; Da 8:2

Esther 9:13-14

If it please the king.Esther had probably been informed by Mordecai, that there were still many enemies of the Jews who sought their destruction, who had escaped the preceding day; and therefore begged that the second day might be added to the former permission; and that the sons of Haman, who had already been slain, might be suspended on gibbets, as a terror to those who sought the destruction of the Jews.

according unto.

8:11

let Haman's ten sons be hanged. Heb. let men hang Haman'sten sons.

De 21:23; 2Sa 21:6,9; Ga 3:13