Gen 24:52, 43:28, 1Ki 19:18, Est 3:2-5, Isa 45:23, Rom 11:4, 14:10-11 | TSK | STEP

Genesis 24:52

worshipped.

26,48; 1Ch 29:20; 2Ch 20:18; Ps 34:1,2; 95:6; 107:21,22; 116:1,2

Mt 2:11; Ac 10:25,26

Genesis 43:28

bowed.

26; 37:7,9,10

made obeisance.

Ex 18:7; 2Sa 1:2; 14:4; 1Ki 1:16; 2Ch 24:17

1 Kings 19:18

Yet I have left. or, Yet I will leave.

Isa 1:9; 10:20-22; Ro 11:4,5

the knees.

Ex 20:5; Isa 49:23; Ro 14:10-12; Php 2:10

every mouth.Idolaters often kissed their hand in honour of their idols; and hence the origin of adoration from {ad,} to and {os, oris,} the mouth. Cicero mentions a statue of Hercules, the chin and lips of which were considerably worn by the kissing of his worshippers.

Job 31:27; Ps 2:12; Ho 13:2

Esther 3:2-5

the king's servants.Dr. Shaw, speaking of the cities in the East, says, "If we quit the streets, and enter into any of the principal houses, we shall first pass through a porch, or gate-way, with benches on each side, where the master of the family receives visits, and despatches business; few persons, not even the nearest relations, having admission any farther, except upon extraordinary occasions." These servants were probably officers who here waited the king's call; and it is likely that Mordecai was one of them.

2:19,21

bowed.

Ge 41:43; Php 2:10

bowed not.{Yichrâ welo yishtachaweh,} "bowed not down, nor prostrated himself," or worshipped him. Had this meant only civil reverence the king would not have needed to command it; nor would Mordecai have refused it; there was, therefore, some kind of divine honour intended, such as was paid to the Persian kings, and which even the Greeks refused, as express adoration.

1,5; Ex 17:14,16; De 25:19; 1Sa 15:3; Ps 15:4

Why.

2; Ex 1:17; Mt 15:2,3

when they spake.

Ge 39:10

that they told.

Da 3:8,9; 6:13

he had told.

Ezr 1:3; Da 3:12,16-18,23-30; 6:20-28; Jon 1:9

that Mordecai.

2; 5:9

full of wrath.