Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Esther 6:8
Royal apparel — His outward garment, which was made of purple, interwoven with gold, as Justin and Cartius relate.
Royal apparel — His outward garment, which was made of purple, interwoven with gold, as Justin and Cartius relate.
Verse Esther 6:8. _LET THE ROYAL APPAREL BE BROUGHT_] _Pride_ and _folly_ ever go hand in hand. What he asked would have been in any ordinary case against his own life: but he wished to reach the pin...
The honors here proposed by Haman were such as Persian monarchs rarely allowed to subjects. Each act would have been a capital offence if done without permission. Still, we find Persian monarchs allow...
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)...
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...
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) in verses: Esther 6:8; Esther 6:9, to emphasize the eagerness with which Haman enumerated the honours his heart desired....
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...
LET THE ROYAL APPAREL BE BROUGHT, &C.— To form a notion of that height of pride and arrogance at which Haman (who thought that all the honours he specified were designed for himself) was arrived, we m...
B. Arrogance TEXT: Esther 6:6-9 6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, To whom would the kin...
_LET THE ROYAL APPAREL BE BROUGHT WHICH THE KING USETH TO WEAR, AND THE HORSE THAT THE KING RIDETH UPON, AND THE CROWN ROYAL WHICH IS SET UPON HIS HEAD:_ The royal apparel ... which the king useth to...
THE ROYAL APPAREL.. _useth_ TO WEAR] Not apparel similar to that which was worn by the king, but apparel which the king had actually used, just as the horse upon which the person to be honoured was mo...
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...
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...
LET THE ROYAL APPAREL BE BROUGHT ... — These exceedingly great distinctions Haman suggests, thinking with unaccountable vanity (for nothing is said or implied as to any service rendered by him to the...
יָבִ֨יאוּ֙ לְב֣וּשׁ מַלְכ֔וּת אֲשֶׁ֥ר לָֽבַשׁ ־בֹּ֖ו...
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...
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...
Let the royal apparel be brought which the king [useth] to wear, and the (c) horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: (c) Meaning by this that the king should...
Apparel. Greek, "of byssus," which was very superb, chap. xv. 9. The king alone could wear the tiara upright. The nobles wore it hanging backwards. Cyrus allowed his nobility to appear in purple, but...
(6) So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more t...
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...
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...
LET THE ROYAL APPAREL BE BROUGHT WHICH THE KING USETH TO WEAR,.... Not a whole suit of clothes, but a single garment; the purple robe, as both the Targums, such as kings wore; that which Cyrus appeare...
Let the royal apparel be brought which the king [useth] to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: Ver. 8. _Let the royal apparel be brought, &c...
_Haman answered, Let the royal apparel_, &c. Concluding he himself was the favourite intended, he prescribes the highest instances of honour that could for once be bestowed upon a subject; nay, he nam...
let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, a dress which he had actually worn, the wearing of which by any other person was the very highest honor, AND THE HORSE THAT THE KING RIDE...
THE KING ASKS HAMAN'S ADVICE...
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...
LET THE ROYAL APPAREL BE BROUGHT: _ Heb._ let them bring the royal apparel WHICH THE KING USETH TO WEAR: _ Heb._ wherewith the king clotheth himself...
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...
THE ROYAL APPAREL; his outward garment, which was made of purple, interwoven with gold, as Justin and Curtius relate. The horse that the king rideth upon usually; which was well known, both by his exc...
Esther 6:8 royal H4438 robe H3830 brought H935 (H8686) king H4428 worn H3847 (H8804) horse H5483 king...
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...
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...
_What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour?_ PRIDE ASSOCIATED WITH FOLLY 1. In Haman honouring Mordecai we have a remarkable verification of the fable of the dog and the shad...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 6:6 WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO THE MAN... THE KING DELIGHTS TO HONOR? Neither Ahasuerus nor Haman is aware of the irony in the question. Haman’s response shows both the extent of his...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 6:6.] When the king had asked the question, Haman thought within himself, TO WHOM WOULD THE KING DELIGHT TO DO HONOUR MORE THAN TO MYSELF?] Going beyond me, more than myself.—...
EXPOSITION AHASUERUS, BEING WAKEFUL DURING THE NIGHT, HAS THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES READ TO HIM, AND FINDS THAT MORDECAI HAS...
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...
1 Kings 1:33; 1 Samuel 18:4; Luke 15:22...