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* Yet all this.
Pride will ever render its possessor unhappy. Haman, though
possessed of immense riches, glory, and honour, and the prime
favourite of his king, is wretched, because he could not have
the homage of that man whom his heart even despised! Oh, how
distressing are the inquietudes of pride and vanity.
# 1Ki 21:4-6 Job 15:20 18:4 Ec 1:2,14 Php 4:11,12
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* said Zeresh.
# 2Sa 13:3-5 1Ki 21:7,25 2Ch 22:3,4 Mr 6:19-24
* Let a gallows. Heb. Let a tree.
# 7:9
* speak thou.
# 3:8-15 6:4
* go thou in.
# 3:15 1Ki 21:7 Am 6:4-6 Re 11:10
* the thing.
# 2Sa 16:21-23 17:1-4 Mr 14:10,11 Ac 23:14,15 Ro 1:32
* he caused.
# 7:10 Ps 7:13-16 9:15 37:14,32 Pr 1:18 4:16 Ro 3:15
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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
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* Bigthana.
# 2:21
* Bigthan. door. Heb. threshold.
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* What honour.
# Jud 1:12,13 1Sa 17:25,26 1Ch 11:6 Da 5:7,16,29 Ac 28:8-10
* There is nothing.
# Ge 40:23 Ps 118:8,9 Ec 9:15
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* Who is in the court.
# Pr 3:27,28 Ec 9:10
* the outward.
# 4:11 5:1
* to speak.
# 3:8-11 5:14 7:9 Job 5:13 Ps 2:4 33:19
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# 5
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* whom the king, etc. Heb. in whose honour the king
delighteth.
# Ps 35:27 Isa 42:1 62:4,5 Jer 32:41 Mt 3:17 Joh 5:23
* To whom.
# 3:2,3 5:11 Pr 1:32 16:18 18:12 30:13 Ob 1:3
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* whom the king, etc. Heb. in whose honour the king
delighteth.
# 9,11
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* Let the royal, etc. Heb. Let them bring the royal apparel,
wherewith the king clotheth himself.
# 1Sa 18:4 Lu 15:22
* the horse.
Herodotus relates, that the kings of Persia had horses
peculiar to themselves, which were brought from Armenia, and
were remarkable for their beauty; and if the same law
prevailed in Persia as in Judea, no man, under the penalty of
death, might ride on the king's horse, any more than sit on
his throne, wear his crown, or hold his sceptre.
# 1Ki 1:33
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* bring him. Heb. cause him to ride. proclaim.
# Ge 41:43 1Ki 1:33,34 Zec 9:9
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* Make haste.
# Da 4:37 Lu 14:11 Re 18:7
* let nothing fail. Heb. suffer not a whit to fall.
# 2Ki 10:10
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* took Hamon.
# Ezr 6:13 Isa 60:14 Lu 1:52 Re 3:9
* and arrayed.
# 8:15 9:3
* the street.
Pitts gives a similar account of the mode of honouring a
person who turns a Mohammedan, at Algiers: "The apostate is
to get on a stately steed, with a rich saddle and fine
trappings: he is also richly habited, and has a turban on his
head, but nothing of this is to be called his own; only there
are given him about two or three yards of broad cloth, which
is laid before him on the saddle. The horse, with him on his
back, is led all round the city, which he is several hours in
doing. The apostate is attended with drums and other music,
and twenty or thirty serjeants. They march in order on each
side of the horse, with naked swords in their hands. The
crier goes before, with a loud voice giving thanks to God for
the proselyte that is made."
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* came again.
# 2:19 1Sa 3:15 Ps 131:1,2
* hasted to his house.
# 2Sa 17:23 1Ki 20:43 21:4 2Ch 26:20 Job 20:5
* having.
# 7:8 2Sa 15:30 Job 9:24 Jer 14:3,4
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* Zeresh.
# 5:10-14
* said his wise.
# Ge 41:8 Da 2:12
* If Mordecai.
# Ge 40:19 1Sa 28:19,20 Job 15:24 Da 5:26-28 Zec 12:2,3
* but shalt surely.
# Job 16:2 Pr 28:18 Ho 14:9
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* hasted to bring.
# 5:8,14 De 32:35,36
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1 Esther, entertaining the king and Haman, makes suit for her
own life, and her people's.
5 She accuses Haman.
7 The king in his anger, understanding of the gallows which
Haman had made for Mordecai, causes him to be hanged
thereon.
* banquet. Heb. drink.
# 3:15 5:8
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* the king said.
# 5:6 Joh 16:24
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* let my life.
# 7 1Ki 20:31 2Ki 1:13 Job 2:4 Jer 38:26
* my people.
# 4:8 Ps 122:6-9
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* we are sold.
# 3:9 4:7,8 De 28:68 1Sa 22:23
* to be destroyed, etc. Heb. that they should destroy, and
kill, and cause to perish.
# 3:13 8:11 Ps 44:22,23
* But if we.
# Ge 37:26-28 De 28:68 Jos 9:23 Ne 5:5 Joe 3:6 Am 2:6
* the enemy.
# 6 3:9
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* Who is he.
# Ge 27:33 Job 9:24
* that durst, etc. Heb. whose heart hath filled him.
# Ac 5:3
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* The adversary. Heb. The man adversary. this wicked.
# 1Sa 24:13 Ps 27:2 139:19-22 Pr 24:24,25 Ec 5:8 1Co 5:13
# 2Th 2:8
* was afraid.
# Ne 6:16 Job 15:21,22 18:5-12 Ps 73:5-9,17-20 Pr 16:14
# Isa 21:4 Da 5:5,6
* before. or, at the presence of.
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* in his wrath.
# 1:12
* Haman.
# Pr 14:19 Isa 60:14 Re 3:9
* for he saw.
# 1Sa 20:7,9 25:17 Ps 112:10 Pr 19:12 Da 3:19
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* the bed.
# 1:6 Isa 49:23
* before me. Heb. with me. they covered Haman's.
When a criminal was condemned by a Roman judge, he was
delivered to the serjeant with these words: {I, lictor, caput
obnubito arbori infelici suspendito,} "Go, sergeant, cover his
head, and hang him on the accursed tree."
# 6:12 Job 9:24 Isa 22:17
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* Harbonah.
# 1:10
* Harbona. one of the chamberlains.
# 6:14 2Ki 9:32
* Behold.
# 5:14 Job 27:20-23 Ps 7:15,16 35:8 141:10 Pr 11:5,6
* gallows. Heb. tree. who had spoken.
# 2:21-23 6:2
* Hang him thereon.
# 9:25 1Sa 17:51 Ps 7:15,16 9:15,16 35:8 37:35,36 73:19
# Pr 11:5,6 Da 6:7,24
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* Then was the king's.
# Jud 15:7 Eze 5:13 Zec 6:8
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1 Mordecai is advanced.
3 Esther makes suit to reverse Haman's letters.
7 Ahasuerus grants to the Jews to defend themselves.
15 Mordecai's honour, and the Jews' joy.
* give the house.
# Job 27:16,17 Ps 39:6 49:6-13 Pr 13:22 28:8 Ec 2:18,19
# Lu 12:20
* came before.
# 1:14 2:7,15
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* his ring.
# 3:10 Ge 41:42 Isa 22:19-22 Lu 15:22
* Esther set.
# 2Sa 9:7-10 Ps 37:34 Ec 2:18,19-26 5:13,14 Da 2:48
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* fell.
# 1Sa 25:24 2Ki 4:27
* besought him with tears. Heb. she wept and besought him.
# Isa 38:2 Ho 12:4 Heb 5:7
* mischief.
# 3:8-15 7:4
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* held out.
# 4:11 5:2
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* and, if I.
# 7:3 Ex 33:13,16 1Sa 20:29
* I be pleasing.
# 2:4,17
* letters. Heb. device.
# 3:12,13
* which he wrote. or, who wrote.
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* For how.
# Ge 44:34 Jer 4:19 9:1 Lu 19:41,42 Ro 9:2,3 10:1
* endure to see. Heb. be able that I may see. the evil.
# 7:4 Ne 2:3
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* Behold.
# 1 Pr 13:22
* him they have hanged.
# 7:10 Ga 3:13
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* in the king's name.
# 3:12 1Ki 21:8
* may no man reverse.
No, not the king himself; and this was the reason that the
king was forced not to reverse, but to give a contradictory
decree; that if the Jews, pursuant to the first decree, were
assaulted, they might legitimately, by virtue of the second,
defend themselves, slay their enemies, and even take the
spoil.
# 5 1:19 Da 6:8,12-15 2Ti 2:19 Heb 6:17,18
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* the king's.
# 3:12
* and to the lieutenants.
# 1:1,22 3:12,13 Da 6:1
* India.
The Hebrew word {Hoddo,} in Syriac, {Hendoo,} and in Arabic,
{Hind,} is rendered India by all the versions. India, or
Hindostan, is a large country of the south of Asia, extending
from north to south about 2,400 miles, and from east to west
1,800, between 8 degrees and 35 degrees N. lat. and 68 degrees
and 92 degrees E. long.; being bounded on the west by the
Indus, east by the Birman empire and Thibet, north by the
Indian Caucasus, and south by the Indian Ocean. It is
probable, however, that all the country east of the Indus was
anciently called India.
* and according.
# 1:22 3:12 2Ki 18:26 Da 4:1 1Co 14:9-11
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* in the king.
# 1Ki 21:8 Ec 8:4 Da 4:1
* by posts.
# 3:13 2Ch 30:6 Job 9:25 Jer 51:21
* mules.
{Rechesh,} in Syriac, {rechesha,} probably denotes a swift
horse.
* camels.
{Achashteranim,} from the Persian {akhash,} large, and
{aster,} a mule, probably, as Bochart supposes, denotes a
large mule.
* young dromedaries.
{Beney harammachim,} "the sons of mares," as the word
{ramakat} denotes in Arabic; probably an expletive of the
preceeding word.
# Isa 60:6 66:20 Jer 2:23
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* to gather.
# 9:2-16
* to destroy.
# Ps 37:14,15 68:3 137:8 146:6-9 Eze 39:10
* and to take the spoil.
# 3:13 9:10,15,16 Isa 10:6
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* one day.
# 9:1 Ex 15:9,10 Jud 1:6,7
* upon the thirteenth.
# 3:13-15
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* published. Heb. revealed. avenge themselves.
# Jud 16:28 Ps 37:14,15 68:23 92:10,11 149:6-9 Lu 18:7 Re 6:10
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* being hastened.
# 1Sa 21:8 Ec 9:10
* Shushan.
# 1:2 2:3 3:15 Ne 1:1 Da 8:2
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* royal apparel.
# 5:1 6:8,11 Ge 41:42 Mt 6:29 11:8 Lu 16:19
* blue. or, violet.
# 1:6
* and with a great crown.
Mordecai was now made the chief minister, or vizier, instead
of Haman; and was accordingly invested with the "royal
apparel," in conformity to the custom of the East. So we are
informed, in the History of the Revolt of Ali Bey, that on the
election of a new {sheikh bellet,} or chief of the country, in
Egypt, the {pasha} who approves of him invests him with a robe
of valuable fur. Perhaps the crown was one of the insignia of
the office of vizier. Concerning the blue, fine linen, and
purple, see the Notes on Ex 25:4; 39:27.
* the city.
Haman was too proud to be popular: few lamented his fall.
# 3:15 Pr 29:2
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* Jews.
# 4:1-3,16 Ps 30:5-11
* had light.
That is, prosperity and hope. The dark cloud which had so
long hung over them was dispelled; and again the sunshine of
prosperity beamed upon them.
# 9:17 Ps 18:28 97:11 Pr 4:18,19 11:10 Isa 30:29,30 35:10
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* a feast.
# 9:17,19,22 1Sa 25:8 Ne 8:10
* many of the people.
# Ps 18:43 Zec 8:20-23
* for the fear.
# 9:2 Ge 35:5 Ex 15:16 De 2:25 11:25
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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
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* 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
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* 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 that
belonged to the king. the fear.
# 3:2-6 8:5
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* 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
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* 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.
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* Shushan.
# 3:15
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