Esther 2:23

hanged.

5:14; 7:10; Ge 40:19,22; De 21:22,23; Jos 8:29

the book.

6:1,2; Mal 3:16

Esther 6:1

1 Ahasuerus, reading in the chronicles of the good service done by Mordecai, takes care for his reward.

4 Haman, coming to sue that Mordecai might be hanged, gives counsel that he might do him honour.

12 Complaining of this, his friends tell him of his final destiny.

that night.

5:8; Ge 22:14; 1Sa 23:26,27; Isa 41:17; Ro 11:33

could not the king sleep. Heb. the king's sleep fled away.

Da 2:1; 6:18

the book of records.As chronicles were composed among the Persians, a more instructive and interesting work could not be brought before the king; because they were all written in verse, and were generally the work of the most eminent poets of the empire.

2:23; Mal 3:16

Job 19:23-25

Oh. Heb. Who will give, etc. my words.

31:35; Isa 8:1; 30:8

oh that they were.Rather, "Oh that they were described {yuchakoo} in a book, with an iron stile and lead! Were graven on a rock for ever!" Pliny observes, "At first men wrote on palm leaves, and afterwards on the bark or rind of other trees. In process of time, public monuments were written on rolls of lead ({plumbeis voluminibus}); and those of a private nature on linen books, or tables covered with wax."

graven.

Ex 28:11,12,21; 32:16; De 27:2,3,8; Jer 17:1

I know.

33:23,24; Ps 19:14; Isa 54:5; 59:20,21; Eph 1:7

he shall.

Ge 3:15; 22:18; Joh 5:22-29; Jude 1:14

Psalms 56:8

tellest.

105:13,14; 121:8; Nu 33:2-56; 1Sa 19:18; 22:1-5; 27:1; Isa 63:9

2Co 11:26; Heb 11:8,13,38

put.

39:12; 126:5,6; 2Ki 20:5; Job 16:20; Re 7:17

are they.

139:16; Mal 3:16; Mt 10:30; Re 20:12

Isaiah 65:6

it is.

Ex 17:14; De 32:34; Ps 56:8; Mal 3:16; Re 20:12

I will.

42:14; 64:12; Ps 50:3,21

but.

Ps 79:12; Jer 16:18; Eze 11:21; 22:31; Joe 3:4

Daniel 7:10

fiery.

Ps 50:3; 97:2,3; Isa 30:27,33; 66:15,16; Na 1:5,6

thousand thousands.

De 33:2; 1Ki 22:19; Ps 68:17; Zec 14:5; Mt 25:31; Heb 12:22

Jude 1:14; Re 5:11

the judgment.

Ps 96:11-13; Mal 3:16-18; Re 20:11-15

Matthew 12:35-37

good man.

13:52; Ps 37:30,31; Pr 10:20,21; 12:6,17-19; 15:4,23,28

Pr 16:21-23; 25:11,12; Eph 4:29; Col 3:16; 4:6

and an.

34

every.

Ec 12:14; Ro 2:16; Eph 6:4-6; Jude 1:14,15; Re 20:12

idle word.[Rhema ,] [argos ,] i.e., [ergo--work/act/deed,] from a, privative, and [ergon ,] work, a word that produces no good effect, and is not calculated to produce any. "Discourse," says Dr. Doddridge, "tending to innocent mirth, to exhilarate the spirits, is not idle discourse; as the time spent in necessary recreation is not idle time."

For by.

Pr 13:3

justified.

Jas 2:21-25
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