George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Esther 3:6
Counted. Septuagint, "consulted how to exterminate all the Jews in the kingdom." --- Assuerus. Hebrew adds, "the people of Mardochai."
Counted. Septuagint, "consulted how to exterminate all the Jews in the kingdom." --- Assuerus. Hebrew adds, "the people of Mardochai."
TO DESTROY ALL THE JEWS - In the East massacres of a people, a race, a class, have at all times been among the incidents of history, and would naturally present themselves to the mind of a statesman....
HAMAN AND HIS WICKED PLOT CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The promotion of Haman and Mordecai's faithfulness (Esther 3:1)_ 2. Haman's proposal and the King's assent (Esther 3:7) 3. The proclamation of death (Esthe...
ESTHER 3. HAMAN, TO AVENGE A SLIGHT PUT ON HIM BY MORDECAI, PERSUADES THE KING TO ORDER A MASSACRE OF THE JEWS. The Grand Vizier Haman, Heb. calls a descendant of that mysterious people, the Amalekite...
HAMAN SOUGHT. Another assault of Satan against the nation through whom the Seed of the woman was to come. See App-23....
_But he thought scorn etc._ Haman's wrath was so excessive that to punish the man who excited it seemed to him as nothing. The whole nation to which his enemy belonged must perish. A little more than...
III. Perverseness of Haman, Chapter 3 A. Scorn of Mordecai TEXT: Esther 3:1-6 1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his...
_THEN THE KING'S SERVANTS, WHICH WERE IN THE KING'S GATE, SAID UNTO MORDECAI, WHY TRANSGRESSEST THOU THE KING'S COMMANDMENT?_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
HAMAN'S REVENGEFUL DESIGN AGAINST THE JEWS 1. The Agagite] It has been suggested that the name is an epithet meant to recall the Amalekite Agag hewn in pieces by Samuel (1 Samuel 15:33), and intended...
GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 3 V1 Some time later, King Xerxes rewarded Haman. Haman was from the family of Agag and his father was Hammedatha. The king gave more author...
וַ יִּ֣בֶז בְּ עֵינָ֗יו לִ שְׁלֹ֤ח יָד֙
HAMAN Esther 3:1; Esther 5:9; Esther 7:5 HAMAN is the Judas of Israel. Not that his conduct or his place in history would bring him into comparison with the traitor apostle, for he was an open foe an...
RACE PREJUDICE BREEDS HATRED Esther 3:1 Josephus says that Agagite means a descendant of Agag, the common name for the kings of the Amalekites, Numbers 24:7. It is probably that something of the natu...
In this section we have a picture of the procedure of government in the court of the king. Haman was promoted to supreme authority, and the portrait of the man is naturally and vividly presented to us...
(5) And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. (6) And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mord...
Haman Ancient Day Hitler I. INTRODUCTION A. So far in our study of Esther, we have seen Queen Vashti give up her crown for not parading herself in front of the Kings drunken friends. 1. Last week w...
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...
AND HE THOUGHT SCORN TO LAY HANDS ON MORDECAI ALONE,.... That would not be a sufficient gratification of his revenge; he was too low and mean a person only to wreak his vengeance on; nothing short of...
And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that [were] throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasueru...
_And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone_ He thought that particular vengeance was unsuitable to his quality, and to the greatness of the injury; _wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the...
And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone, revenge on this one man alone seemed too insignificant a matter to him; FOR THEY HAD SHOWED HIM THE PEOPLE OF MORDECAI, the despised race of the Je...
HAMAN PLANS REVENGE AGAINST MORDECAI...
HAMAN'S ADVANCEMENT AND CONSPIRACY (vv. 1-15) After this (though we are not told how long after) King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, an Agagite, to a position above all the princes (v. 1).Agag had been t...
1-6 Mordecai refused to reverence Haman. The religion of a Jew forbade him to give honours to any mortal man which savoured of idolatry, especially to so wicked a man as Haman. By nature all are idol...
HE THOUGHT SCORN; he thought that particular vengeance was unsuitable to his quality, and to the greatness of the injury. HAMAN SOUGHT TO DESTROY ALL THE JEWS; which he attempted, partly, from that im...
Esther 3:6 disdained H5869 H959 (H8799) lay H7971 (H8800) hands H3027 Mordecai H4782 told H5046 ...
CONTENTS: Conspiracy of Haman. The king's decree to destroy the Jews. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Haman, Mordecai. CONCLUSION: Though religion in no way stands in the way of good manners, but teaches us t...
Esther 3:1. _Haman the Agagite._ All the kings of Amalek received the name of Agag. This man is thought, by most critics, to have been of the seed- royal of that devoted nation, who bitterly hated the...
_Wherefore Haman thought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom._ PLOTTING IN VAIN We proceed to consider the scheme of destruction which Haman arranged with the utmost craft...
_And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not. .. then was Haman full of wrath._ VANITY AND CRUELTY Haman manifests by his behaviour the intimate connection there is between vanity and cruelty. 1. Van...
_After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman._ THE PROSPEROUS WICKED MAN Matthew Henry says: “I wonder what the king saw in man that was commendable or meritorious? It is plain that he was n...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 3:1 Main Action. The plot to destroy the Jews (Esther 3:1) is foiled by the courageous actions of Esther and Mordecai ...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 3:5 HAMAN... DISDAINED TO LAY HANDS ON MORDECAI ALONE. Haman hated the Jews and set out to destroy them all. THE WHOLE KINGDOM OF AHASUERUS. This included Jerusalem and the surro...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 3:1. AFTER THESE THINGS] After the events related in the former chapter. The twelfth year of the reign of Ahasuerus, five years after Esther 2:16, but here somewhat sooner. “Th...
EXPOSITION MORDECAI, BY WANT OF RESPECT, OFFENDS HAMAN, AHASUERUS' CHIEF MINISTER. HAMAN, IN REVENGE, RESOLVES TO DESTROY THE ENTIRE NATION OF
And as we get into Chapter 3, After these things the king Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. And t...
Psalms 83:4; Revelation 12:12...
Scorn — He thought that vengeance was unsuitable to his quality. Destroy — Which he attempted, from that implacable hatred which, as an Amalekite, he had against them; from his rage against Mordecai;...