Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Esther 3:13
Which was to oblige them to the greater severity and readiness, to execute this edict for their own advantage.
Which was to oblige them to the greater severity and readiness, to execute this edict for their own advantage.
Verse Esther 3:13. _TO DESTROY, SO KILL, AND TO CAUSE TO PERISH_] To put the whole of them to death in _any manner_, or by _every way_ and _means_. TAKE _THE SPOIL OF THEM FOR A PREY._] Thus, whoeve...
Present, the Jews keep three days - the 13th, the 14th, and the 15th of Adar - as connected with “the Feast of Purim;” but they make the 13th a fast, commemorative of the fast of Esther Esther 4:16, a...
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...
POSTS. the hand of the runners. Compare Esther 8:10. DESTROY... KILL... CAUSE TO PERISH. Note the Figure of speech _Synonymia_, to emphasize the utter destruction contemplated. PERISH. Hebrew. _'abad...
_And letters were sent by posts_ Xenophon tells us (_Cyr._viii. 6. 17) that these were carefully organised by Cyrus in the Persian Empire, and continued after his time. Stations were established at co...
LETTERS WERE SENT BY POSTS— The first institution of _posts_ is generally ascribed to the Persians; for the kings of Persia, as Diodorus Siculus observes, lib. 19: in order that they might have intell...
C. Sentence of Xerxes TEXT: Esther 3:12-15 12 Then were the king's scribes called in the first month, on the thirteenth day thereof; and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto...
_THEN WERE THE KING'S SCRIBES CALLED ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH, AND THERE WAS WRITTEN ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HAMAN HAD COMMANDED UNTO THE KING'S LIEUTENANTS, AND TO THE GOVERNORS THAT WE...
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...
POSTS] Horsemen (cp. href='190 8:10'>Est 8:10) were posted at regular intervals of a day's journey along the main roads to transmit in succession the messages they received until they reached their de...
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...
POSTS. — Literally, _the runners._ (See Note on Esther 1:22.)...
וְ נִשְׁלֹ֨וחַ סְפָרִ֜ים בְּ יַ֣ד הָ רָצִים֮
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...
Messengers. Literally, "runners." (Haydock) --- Posts were first established in Persia, and were the admiration of other nations, though nothing compared with ours, as they were not regular, nor for t...
(12) Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors tha...
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 THE LETTERS WERE SENT BY POST INTO ALL THE KING'S PROVINCES,.... Or by the runners x; by which it seems as if these letters were carried by running footmen, men swift of foot; or rather they were...
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, [even] upon the thir...
_Then were the king's scribes called_ This he did so speedily, though it was a year before the intended execution, lest the king should change his mind, either through his own clemency, or the persuas...
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, for the system of royal posts by means of runners along the military highways was highly developed in Persia, TO DESTROY, TO KILL, AND...
THE PLOT TO DESTROY THE JEWS...
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...
7-15 Without some acquaintance with the human heart, and the history of mankind, we should not think that any prince could consent to a dreadful proposal, so hurtful to himself. Let us be thankful fo...
Esther 3:13 letters H5612 sent H7971 (H8736) by H3027 couriers H7323 (H8801) kings H4428 provinces H4082 destroy...
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...
_To kill, and to cause to perish._ A WICKED MASSACRE The wickedness of the intended massacre does not rest with Ahasuerus and Haman. Great multitudes of the king’s subjects must participate in the gu...
_Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day._ FRUITLESS PREPARATIONS I. Here is unseemly haste. II. Here are inconsistent precursory measures. Wickedness renders a man inconsistent....
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 3:12 THE FIRST MONTH. Presumably of the following (13th) year of Ahasuerus’s reign (see v. Esther 3:7). the twelfth month
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 3:12.] The scribes of Xerxes are mentioned more than once by Herodotus. They appear to have been in constant attendance on the monarch, ready to indite his edicts, or to note d...
EXPOSITION HAMAN CASTS LOTS TO OBTAIN A LUCKY DAY FOR HIS ENTERPRISE, AND OBTAINS A DAY IN THE MONTH ADAR, THE LAST MONTH 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...
1 Samuel 15:3; 1 Samuel 22:19; 2 Chronicles 30:6; Esther 8:10; Es