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THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT AND MORDECAI'S EXALTATION
CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The sleepless night (Esther 6:1)_
2. The exaltation of Mordecai (Esther 6:4)
3. Haman anticipates his doom (Esther 6:12)...
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ESTHER 6. HAMAN IS COMPELLED TO DO PUBLIC HONOUR TO MORDEEAI. Now
comes a dramatic scene. Providence is at work, and the clouds are
opening. In the night between Esther's two drinking-feasts, the king...
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STANDETH IN THE COURT. As explained in the _Parenthesis,_ Esther 6:4.
COME IN. Note the Figure of speech _Anaaiplosis_. Esther 6:5 ending
with the same verb which begins the next sentence....
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Esther 6:1-11. Mordecai's elevation
In this section we are shewn the strange concatenation of apparently
trivial circumstances which collectively have the effect of bestowing
the highest reward and m...
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VII. Panic of Haman, Esther 6:1-14
A. Appreciation
TEXT: Esther 6:1-5
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On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the
book of records of the chronicles, and they were read...
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MORDECAI IS HONOURED
An account of how the king being reminded of Mordecai's services, and
wishing to reward him, consulted Haman, and how Haman, thinking
himself the object of the king's interest, c...
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GOD IS IN CONTROL
Book of Esther
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 6
V1 That night the king could not sleep. He ordered that someone
should bring the book of the official records of his rule. He ordered
tha...
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וַ יֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ נַעֲרֵ֤י הַ מֶּ֨לֶךְ֙
אֵלָ֔יו...
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GRATITUDE FOR A FORGOTTEN SERVICE
Esther 6:1
There was a divine providence in this royal sleeplessness. On the very
next night Haman would be hanging on the gallows, and it would be too
late for him...
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In the economy of God vast issues follow apparently trivial things. A
sleepless night is in itself transient and almost trivial. Yet it has
often been a time of revelation and surprise, affecting the...
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(5) And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in
the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
Haman is announced. Ahasuerus is ready for his purpose, and Haman for
his: but oh!...
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Sleepless Nights
A man's definition of childish games = the ones at which your wife
beats you!
A young girl said to her pastor, "I'm afraid I've committed the sin of
vanity." To which the pastor rep...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 10.
The Book of Nehemiah has shewn us Judah reinstated in the land, but
deprived of the presence of God, except as to general blessing, and
unacknow...
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AND THE KING'S SERVANTS SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, HAMAN STANDETH IN THE
COURT,.... In the outward court; for into the inward court none might
enter without being called, for which he was waiting:
AND TH...
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_And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the
court. And the king said, Let him come in._
Ver. 5. _Behold, Haman standeth in the court_] For into the presence
he might not com...
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_The king said, Let him come in_ The king thought him the fittest man
he had to be made use of, both in directing and in dispensing his
favour, knowing nothing of any quarrel he had with Mordecai. _So...
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And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the
court. And the king said, Let him come in, namely, into the apartments
of the king, since he was probably reclining on his bed....
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THE KING ASKS HAMAN'S ADVICE...
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The same night that Haman had had a gallows made on which to hang
Mordecai, the Lord intervened in a most amazing way, causing the king
to be unable to sleep and moving him to have the book of records...
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4-11 See how men's pride deceives them. The deceitfulness of our own
hearts appears in nothing more than in the conceit we have of
ourselves and our own performances: against which we should constant...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Esther 6:5 kings H4428 servants H5288 said H559 (H8799) Haman H2001
standing H5975 (H8802) court H2691 king...
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CONTENTS: Haman compelled to exalt Mordecai.
CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Esther, Haman, Mordecai, Zeresh.
CONCLUSION: God's wisdom and grace is seen in the way He times the
means of deliverance for His p...
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Esther 6:1. _That night could not the king sleep,_ the reveries of his
mind being excited by guardian angels. See on Psalms 34:7. The LXX
read, “But the Lord moved the king that night by dreams.”
RE...
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ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 6:5 HAMAN IS THERE. Haman now waits as Esther
had done in Esther 5:1. Again, the timing is perfect. Even though the
text does not say so, God is invisibly at work
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ESTHER 6:4.] The question, WHO IS IN THE COURT?] means what officer is
now present. The king desires to consult with him as to what
distinction would be appropriate to Mordecai. It s...
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EXPOSITION
AHASUERUS, BEING WAKEFUL DURING THE NIGHT, HAS THE BOOK OF THE
CHRONICLES READ TO HIM, AND FINDS THAT MORDECAI HAS...
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Now that night king Ahasuerus couldn't go to sleep (Esther 6:1),
He's lying there restless. No doubt God was in the restlessness. And
so he said,
bring to me the chronicles [the history]; read to me...