Ezra 4:12-15
rebellious.15,19; 2Ki 18:20; 24:1; 2Ch 36:13; Jer 52:3; Eze 17:12-21Lu 23:2-5; Ac 24:5; 1Th 5:22; 1Pe 2:13-15bad city.Ps 48:1,2; Isa 1:21-23; Lu 13:34set up. or, finished.Ne 1:3; Da 9:25joined. Chal. sewed together. if this city.Ne 5:4; Ps 52:2; 119:69pay. Chal. give. toll.7:24; Mt 9:9; 17:25; Ro 13:6,7revenue. or, strength. have maintenance, etc. Chal. are salted with the salt of thepalace. Salt is reckoned among the principal necessaries of life, (Ecclus. 39:26 or 31;) hence, by a very natural figure, salt is used for food or maintenance in general. I am well informed, says Mr. Parkhurst, that it is a common expression of the natives in the East Indies, "I eat such a one's salt," meaning, I am fed by him. Salt was also, as it still is, among eastern nations, a symbol of friendship and hospitality; and hence, to eat a man's salt, is to be bound to him by the ties of friendship. and it was.Eze 33:31; Joh 12:5,6; 19:12-15 this city.12; Ne 2:19; 6:6; Es 3:5-8; Da 6:4-13; Ac 17:6,7moved. Chal. made. within the same. Chal. in the midstthereof. for which. 2Ki 24:20; 25:1,4; Jer 52:3-34Esther 3:8-9
scattered abroad.Le 26:33; De 4:27; 30:3; 32:26; Ne 1:8; Jer 50:17; Eze 6:8; 11:16Zec 7:14; Joh 7:35; Jas 1:1; 1Pe 1:1their laws.Ezr 4:12-15; Ac 16:20,21; 17:6,7; 24:5; 28:22for the king's profit to. Heb. meet, or equal for the kingto, etc. that they may be destroyed. Heb. to destroy them. and Iwill pay. Heb. and I will weigh. Ge 23:16Here Haman is obliged to acknowledge that there would be a loss to the revenue, which he was willing to make up out of his own property. Ten thousand talents of silver, counted by the Babylonish talent, amount to 2,119,000£.; but reckoned by the Jewish talent, they amount to double that sum. In those days, silver and gold were more plentiful than at present; and we have many instances of individuals possessing almost incredible riches. Herodotus relates, that when Xerxes went into Greece, Pythius the Lydian had 2,000 talents of silver, and 4,000,000 of gold darics, which unitedly amount to nearly 5,500,000£. Plutarch tells us, that after Crassus had dedicated the tenth of all he had to Hercules, he entertained the Roman people at 10,000 tables, and distributed to every citizen as much corn as was sufficient for three months; and, after all these expenses, he had 7,100 Roman talents left, which amount to more than 1,500,000£. Lentulus the augur is said to have possessed no less than 3,333,333£. 6s. 8d. Apicius was worth more than 916,671£ 13s. 4d.; and, after having spent in his kitchen 833,333£ 6s. 8d. he considered the remainder too little for his support, and poisoned himself! ten thousand.Mt 18:24Acts 18:2
Aquila.26; Ro 16:3,4; 1Co 16:19; 2Ti 4:19Pontus.2:9; 1Pe 1:1Claudius.11:28Acts 19:34
they knew.26; 16:20; Ro 2:22all.1Ki 18:26; Mt 6:7Great.28; Re 13:4
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