Verse Esther 3:10. _THE KING TOOK HIS RING_] In this ring was no doubt included his _privy seal_, and he gave this to Haman, that when he had formed such a _decree_ as he thought fit, he might seal i...
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...
THE JEWS' ENEMY. Haman so called four times: Esther 3:10; Esther 8:1; Esther 9:10; Esther 9:24. No one else so called in Scripture....
_his ring_ The possession of the king's signet ring gave the holder full power to issue edicts in his name, since the sealing of them with his signet gave them validity. Alexander the Great is said to...
B. Subterfuge of Haman TEXT: Esther 3:7-11 7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and...
_AND THE KING TOOK HIS RING FROM HIS HAND, AND GAVE IT UNTO HAMAN THE SON OF HAMMEDATHA THE AGAGITE, THE JEWS' ENEMY._ The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman. There was a seal o...
3:10 enemy. (a-23) Or 'oppressor,' 'adversary.' _ Tzar_ , as ch. 7.4,6; see Exodus 23:22 , Psalms 8:2 ....
TOOK HIS RING] For the significance of this see Esther 8:8....
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 יָּ֧סַר הַ מֶּ֛לֶךְ אֶת ־טַבַּעְתֹּ֖ו מֵ
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...
_Ring, to transfer his power to him, for the time, Genesis xli. 42. Alexander gave his ring to Periccas, and was generally supposed thus to designate him for his successor. (Justin. xii.) See 1 Machab...
(10) And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. (11) And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people als...
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 KING TOOK HIS RING FROM HIS HAND, AND GAVE IT UNTO HAMAN, THE SON OF HAMMEDATHA THE AGAGITE, THE JEWS' ENEMY. As a token of his affection for him, and a mark of honour to him; with the Persian...
And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. Ver. 10. _And the king took his ring from his hand_] And thereby gave him power to...
_And the king took his ring from his hand_, &c. Without any examination into the condition of the people, he consented to their destruction. So loath are men that love their pleasure to take any pains...
And the king, carried away with pleasure by the clever proposition of Haman, TOOK HIS RING FROM HIS HAND, AND GAVE IT UNTO HAMAN, THE SON OF HAMMEDATHA, THE AGAGITE, THE JEWS' ENEMY, this being a toke...
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...
ENEMY: Or, oppressor...
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...
GAVE IT UNTO HAMAN; that he might keep it as a badge of his supreme authority under the king, and that he might use it for the sealing of this decree which now he desired, or of any other, as hereafte...
Esther 3:10 king H4428 took H5493 (H8686) ring H2885 hand H3027 gave H5414 (H8799) Haman H2001 son...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 3:8.] The Jews were at this time a people scattered abroad. From the fall of Samaria the tribes of Israel had become more and more dispersed among the people in all the provinc...
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...
Esther 7:6; Esther 8:2; Esther 8:8; Genesis 41:42...