Est 9:1, 11, 13, 15 | TSK | STEP | The Jews slay their enemies, with the ten sons of Haman. Ahasuerus, at the request of Esther, grants another day of slaughter, and Haman's sons to be hanged. The two days of Purim are made festival. A.M. 3552. B.C. 452. in the twelfth. hoped. though it was turned.

Esther 9:1

1 The Jews slay their enemies, with the ten sons of Haman.

12 Ahasuerus, at the request of Esther, grants another day of slaughter, and Haman's sons to be hanged.

20 The two days of Purim are made festival.

A.M. 3552. B.C. 452. in the twelfth.

3:7,13; 8:12

hoped.

Ac 12:11

though it was turned.

De 32:36; 2Sa 22:41; Ps 30:11; Isa 14:1,2; 60:14-16; Re 11:18

Esther 9:11

was brought. Heb. came.

Esther 9:13

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

Esther 9:15

gathered themselves.

2,13; 8:11; Ps 118:7-12

but on the prey.

10,16; 1Th 5:22; Heb 13:5