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Verse Esther 9:6. _AND IN SHUSHAN_] It is strange that in this city,
where the king's mind must have been so well known, there should be
found _five hundred_ persons to rise up in hostility against th...
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By “Shushan the palace (or the fort),” is probably meant the whole
of the upper town, which occupied an area of more than 100 acres, and
contained many residences besides the actual palace. The Jews w...
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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)...
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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...
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DESTROYED, &C. Note that they took no advantage of the permission
given in Esther 8:11....
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_in Shushan the palace_ The word seems to have a somewhat wider sense
here than earlier in the Book (see note on Esther 1:2), meaning
perhaps _royal city_. Bloodshed within the palace proper would not...
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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....
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B. Progress
TEXT: Esther 9:6-15
6
And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred
men.
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And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
8
and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,...
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_AND IN SHUSHAN THE PALACE THE JEWS SLEW AND DESTROYED FIVE HUNDRED
MEN._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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...
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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...
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THE PALACE. — Doubtless the whole royal city, rather than the palace
strictly so called. It is obvious that even Xerxes would hardly have
allowed bloodshed, otherwise than by his direct orders, within...
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וּ בְ שׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַ בִּירָ֗ה הָרְג֤וּ
הַ
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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...
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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...
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And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed (d) five hundred
men.
(d) Besides the three hundred that they slew the second day, (Esther
9:15)....
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Sons. It seems as if they had been slain with their father, ver. 10.
See chap. vii. 9. (Calmet) --- Yet, as the contrary would appear from
chap. xvi. 18, we may suppose that they were at least (Haydoc...
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(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...
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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...
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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 IN SHUSHAN THE PALACE THE JEWS SLEW AND DESTROYED FIVE HUNDRED
MEN. Not in the royal palace, where it cannot be thought the Jews had
so many enemies, or such a bloody slaughter of them should be m...
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And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred
men.
Ver. 6. _And in Shushan the palace_] One would wonder that any here
should offer to stir against the Jews, so much favoured by...
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_In Shushan the palace_ That is, in the city where the palace was; it
not being probable, either that they would make such a slaughter in
the palace itself, or that they would be permitted so to do; _...
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And in Shushan, the palace, the section of the capital where the royal
palace was situated, THE JEWS SLEW AND DESTROYED FIVE HUNDRED MEN....
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THE ENEMIES SLAIN...
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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...
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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...
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Esther 9:6 Shushan H7800 citadel H1002 Jews H3064 killed H2026 (H8804)
destroyed H6 (H8763) five H2568 hundred...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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EXPOSITION
RESULT OF THE SECOND EDICT' THE JEWS RESIST THEIR ENEMIES, AND EFFECT
A GREAT SLAUGHTER OF THEM, BUT DO NOT LAY HAN
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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...
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Esther 3:15...
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Shushan — In the city so called. Slew — Whom they knew to be such
as would watch all opportunities to destroy them; which also they
might possibly now attempt to do....