Goods, in any place, (Tirinus) that they might not appear to be actuated by the desire of riches, (Calmet) to fall upon the innocent. How often does this fatal cause blind Christian conquerors! The sons of Aman were married, and had separate establishments, chap. viii. 1.
Verse Esther 9:10. _THE TEN SONS OF HAMAN_] Their names are given above. And it is remarked here, and in Esther 9:16, where the account is given of the number slain in the provinces, that the Jews _l...
Most of these names are Persian, and readily traceable to Old Persian roots. Esther 9:10 ON THE SPOIL LAID THEY NOT THEIR HAND - As they might have done (see the margin reference)....
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF ADAR AND THE FEAST OF PURIM CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The resistance and victory of the Jews (Esther 9:1)_ 2. Esther's petition (Esther 9:12) 3. The institution of Purim (Esther 9:17)...
THE JEWS SUCCESSFUL AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES. Adar 13th, the dreadful day, comes at last. What were the Jews to do? There were many partisans of Haman, some 500 at least in the city alone; there were tho...
THE TEN SONS. In all Hebrew manuscripts and printed editions these ten names are written with the word veeth, being the demonstrative pronoun. self, or this same, or himself, thus: veeth Parshandatha,...
Esther 9:1-10. Overthrow of the Jews" enemies The story, omitting the intermediate months of preparation, now passes to the date fixed by the decree for the Jews" overthrow....
_on the spoil they laid not their hand_ although according to the terms of the edict (Esther 8:11) they had a legal right to do this. Their desire was deliverance and also vengeance, but not material...
B. Progress TEXT: Esther 9:6-15 6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. 7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, 8 and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,...
_AND IN SHUSHAN THE PALACE THE JEWS SLEW AND DESTROYED FIVE HUNDRED MEN._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE JEWS SLAY THEIR ENEMIES. INSTITUTION OF PURIM 3. All the rulers, etc.] The great massacre described in href='190 9:16'>Est 9:16 is thus represented as being in part the work of the Persian author...
ON THE SPOIL, etc.] In this respect they did not carry out the king's decree (href='190 8:11'>Est 8:11); their vengeance was not sullied by sordid motives....
GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 9 V1 The 13th day of the 12th month (the month called Adar) was the day to carry out the king’s law. This was the day when the enemies of t...
ON THE SPOIL LAID THEY NOT THEIR HAND. — This they might have done, according to the edict (Esther 8:11)....
עֲ֠שֶׂרֶת בְּנֵ֨י הָמָ֧ן בֶּֽן ־הַמְּדָ֛תָא צֹרֵ֥ר...
DELIVERANCE BY THE SWORD Esther 9:1 When the fateful day arrived, the Jews throughout the empire stood on the defense. As it appears from Esther 9:16, seventy-five thousand of their assailants fell i...
In this final section of the Book we have an account, first, of the arrival of the fateful day and all that happened thereon. It was a day when the changed conditions in the case of Haman and Mordecai...
The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but (e) on the spoil laid they not their hand. (e) By which they declared that this was God's just judgment on the enemi...
(1) В¶ Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of...
The Feast of Purim I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we saw that even though the king had Haman killed on the gallows he built for Mordecai, the damage he had done to the Jews was still in motion! 1. Es...
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...
Esther 9:7....
The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand. Ver. 10. _The ten sons of Haman_] Of whom he had so boasted, Esther 5:12, and...
_But on the spoil laid they not their hand_ The king had granted them leave to take it, Esther 8:11, but they declined to do it; that it might appear what they did was not done out of malice or coveto...
the ten sons of Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand, they did not take advantage of this right which had been given them in the se...
THE ENEMIES SLAIN...
THE JEWS VICTORIOUS (vv. 1-17) On the day prescribed in both decrees, when the enemies of the Jews expected to destroy all the Jews in the Persian empire, the tables were turned completely, for besi...
1-19 The enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them by the former edict. If they had attempted nothing against the people of God, they would not themselves have suffered. The Jews, acting toge...
Either because they were desirous it should come into the king's treasury; or because they would leave it to their children, that it might appear that what they did that day was not done out of malice...
Esther 9:10 ten H6235 sons H1121 Haman H2001 son H1121 Hammedatha H4099 enemy H6887 (H8802) killed H2026 ...
CONTENTS: Vengeance executed; the Jews victorious. Feast of Purim instituted. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Esther, Mordecai. CONCLUSION: When we have received signal mercies from God, we should be quick t...
Esther 9:1. _The enemies of the Jews._ The Chaldean paraphrase says that no nation appeared in arms against the Jews but Amalek; and these were infatuated to their own destruction. The troubles which...
_But on the spoil laid they not their hand._ LEAVING THE SPOILT It is not always good to seize all the money to which one has a legal right. There are many cases in which a regard to one’s own credit...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 9:1 THE JEWS... DID AS THEY PLEASED (v. Esther 9:5). They took full advantage of the opportunity to defeat their attackers, as they were allowed to do (s
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 9:6. IN SHUSHAN THE PALACE THE JEWS SLEW … FIVE HUNDRED] Shushan the palace is here evidently to be taken in the sense of the place or city of the palace, equivalent to _in_ or...
EXPOSITION RESULT OF THE SECOND EDICT' THE JEWS RESIST THEIR ENEMIES, AND EFFECT A GREAT SLAUGHTER OF THEM, BUT DO NOT LAY HAN
So, when this day came, there in the city of Shushan, there were five hundred men that were slain by the Jews (Esther 9:6). Men who were seeking the evil of the Jews. And so they were able to take th...
Esther 3:1; Esther 5:11; Esther 7:4; Esther 7:6; Esther 8:11;...
But, &c. — Because they would leave it to their children, that it might appear what they did was not done out of malice, or covetousness, but out of mere necessity, and by that great law of self — pre...