Est 9:7-10, 12-13, Job 27:14-15, Hos 9:13-14 | TSK

Esther 9:7-10

ten sons.

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

enemy.

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

Esther 9:12-13

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