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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...
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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...
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III. Perverseness of Haman, Chapter 3
A. Scorn of Mordecai
TEXT: Esther 3:1-6
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After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of
Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his...
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_THEN THE KING'S SERVANTS, WHICH WERE IN THE KING'S GATE, SAID UNTO
MORDECAI, WHY TRANSGRESSEST THOU THE KING'S COMMANDMENT?_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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...
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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...
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וַ יַּ֣רְא הָמָ֔ן כִּי ־אֵ֣ין
מָרְדֳּכַ֔י כֹּ
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HAMAN
Esther 3:1; Esther 5:9; Esther 7:5
HAMAN is the Judas of Israel. Not that his conduct or his place in
history would bring him into comparison with the traitor apostle, for
he was an open foe an...
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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...
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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...
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(5) And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence,
then was Haman full of wrath. (6) And he thought scorn to lay hands on
Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mord...
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_A STURDY ALIEN_
‘Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not.’
Esther 3:5
I. A STURDY SOUL WAS MORDECAI.—He was not going to give a
prostration of homage, which he reserved for God alone, to the haughty
no...
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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...
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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 WHEN HAMAN SAW THAT MORDECAI BOWED NOT, NOR DID HIM REVERENCE,....
For, after the information given him, he observed and watched him, to
see whether he bowed and did him reverence or not:
THEN WA...
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And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence,
then was Haman full of wrath.
Ver. 5. _And when Haman saw_] Stirred up by these pestilent
flatterer, _qui crabronem furiosum magis i...
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_Then was Haman full of rage_ Josephus tells us, that Haman, taking
notice of this singularity in Mordecai, asked him what countryman he
was, and finding him to be a Jew, broke out into a violent excl...
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HAMAN PLANS REVENGE AGAINST MORDECAI...
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And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not nor did him reverence, then
was Haman full of wrath, regarding this refusal, according to Persian
ideas, as the greatest insult which could have been offered...
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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...
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1-6 Mordecai refused to reverence Haman. The religion of a Jew
forbade him to give honours to any mortal man which savoured of
idolatry, especially to so wicked a man as Haman. By nature all are
idol...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Esther 3:5 Haman H2001 saw H7200 (H8799) Mordecai H4782 bow H3766
(H8802) homage H7812 (H8693) Haman...
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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...
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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...
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_And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not. .. then was Haman full of
wrath._
VANITY AND CRUELTY
Haman manifests by his behaviour the intimate connection there is
between vanity and cruelty.
1. Van...
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_After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman._
THE PROSPEROUS WICKED MAN
Matthew Henry says: “I wonder what the king saw in man that was
commendable or meritorious? It is plain that he was n...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ESTHER 3:1. AFTER THESE THINGS] After the events related in the former
chapter. The twelfth year of the reign of Ahasuerus, five years after
Esther 2:16, but here somewhat sooner. “Th...
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EXPOSITION
MORDECAI, BY WANT OF RESPECT, OFFENDS HAMAN, AHASUERUS' CHIEF
MINISTER. HAMAN, IN REVENGE, RESOLVES TO DESTROY THE ENTIRE NATION OF
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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...
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Daniel 3:19; Esther 1:12; Esther 3:2; Esther 5:9; Genesis 4:5;...