Ezra 6:11
whosoever.7:26timber.Es 5:4; 7:10hanged. Chal. destroyed. his house.2Ki 9:37; 10:27; Da 2:5; 3:29 Esther 9:10
ten sons.5:11; Ex 20:5; Job 18:18,19; 27:13-15; Ps 21:10; 109:12,13enemy.3:1; 7:4,6; Ex 17:16but 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. 15,168:11; Ge 14:23; Ro 12:17; Php 4:8 Esther 9:13-14
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.8:11let Haman's ten sons be hanged. Heb. let men hang Haman'sten sons. De 21:23; 2Sa 21:6,9; Ga 3:13 14 Matthew 27:5
and departed.Jud 9:54; 1Sa 31:4,5; 2Sa 17:23; 1Ki 16:18; Job 2:9; 7:15; Ps 55:23Ac 1:18,19
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