2Sa 20:1, Est 3:8-15, 9:1-16, Jam 3:6 | TSK | STEP | By occasion of the quarrel, Sheba makes a party in Israel. David's ten concubines are put in confinement for life. Amasa, made captain over Judah, is slain by Joab. Joab pursues Sheba unto Abel. A wise woman saves the city by Sheba's head. David's officers. And there. a man. he blew. We have.

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 18:24

took.

8:2,8; Ge 41:42

enemy. or, oppressor.

7:6

to do.

Ps 73:7; Jer 26:14; 40:4; Lu 23:25

Then were.

8:9-17

scribes. or, secretaries. according.

1:22; 8:9; 9:27

in the name.

1Ki 21:8; Da 6:8,12,15

sealed.

8:2,8,10

by posts.

8:10,14; 2Ch 30:6; Job 9:25; Jer 51:31; Ro 3:15

both young.

1Sa 15:3; 22:19

in one day.

8:12-14; Jas 2:13

the spoil.

8:11; 9:10; Isa 10:6

The copy.

8:13,14

hastened.

Pr 1:16; 4:16

sat down.

Ho 7:5; Am 6:6; Joh 16:20; Re 11:10

the city.

4:16; 8:15; Pr 29:2

Esther 9:1-16

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

gathered.

10,16; 8:11

as sought.

De 2:30; Jos 11:20; Ps 71:13,24; Isa 8:9

the fear.

8:17; Ge 35:5; Ex 23:27; Jos 2:9

the rulers.

3:12; 8:9; Ezr 8:36; Da 3:2; 6:1,2

officers of the king. Heb. those which did the business thatbelonged to the king. the fear.

3:2-6; 8:5

was great.

Ps 18:43

his fame.

Jos 6:27; 1Sa 2:30; 1Ch 14:17; Zep 3:19; Mt 4:24

waxed.

2Sa 3:1; 1Ch 11:9; Ps 1:3; Pr 4:18; Isa 9:7

smote.

Ps 18:34-40,47,48; 20:7,8; 149:6-9; 2Th 1:6

the stroke.

Jer 18:21

what they would. Heb. according to their will.The Chaldee paraphrast says that none appeared against the Jews but Amalekites only, who were infatuated, and had their hearts hardened, as Pharaoh's against Israel, to take up arms to their own destruction. Some had such an inveterate, implacable malice against the Jews, that Haman's fall and Mordecai's advancement, instead of convincing, seemed only to exasperate them the more. How have the most dreadful scourges ravaged a country, and yet the inhabitants are unmindful of the Almighty Disposer of events, and that the cause of his righteous displeasure is their continual provocation! Forty years long was he grieved with one generation, who learned not his ways, although daily fed and clothed by a miracle.

Shushan.

3:15

ten sons.

5:11; Ex 20:5; Job 18:18,19; 27:13-15; Ps 21:10; 109:12,13

enemy.

3:1; 7:4,6; Ex 17:16

but on the spoil.It does not appear that the Jews slew any person who did not rise up to destroy them: they stood for their lives; and gave full proof that they sought their own personal safety, and not the property of their enemies: though the decree in their favour gave them authority to take the property of all their adversaries.

15,16

8:11; Ge 14:23; Ro 12:17; Php 4:8

was brought. Heb. came.

what is thy petition.

5:6; 7:2

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

gathered themselves.

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

but on the prey.

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

gathered themselves.

8:11

stood.

8:11; Le 26:7,8