Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Esther 10:3
Mordecai ... was next unto king Ahasuerus - See Esther 2:5 note. Artabanus (Esther 1:14 note) was favorite toward the end of Xerxes’ reign, i. e. in his 20th and 21st years.
Mordecai ... was next unto king Ahasuerus - See Esther 2:5 note. Artabanus (Esther 1:14 note) was favorite toward the end of Xerxes’ reign, i. e. in his 20th and 21st years.
Verse Esther 10:3. Was _NEXT UNTO KING AHASUERUS_] He was his prime minister; and, under him, was the governor of the whole empire. The _Targum_ is extravagant in its encomiums upon Mordecai: "All t...
AHASUERUS AND MORDECAI: THE CONCLUSION CHAPTER 10 The three verses with which this book closes tell us of the greatness of King Ahasuerus. Here also is the record of the increasing greatness of Morde...
ESTHER 10. CONCLUSION OF THE BOOK. The final chapter is a short panegyric on Mordecai: he is praised as wise and kind, a man of high importance in imperial affairs as well as beloved by all Jews. This...
NEXT. the second. the Grand Vizier. Compare Esther 8:2. SPEAKING PEACE. maintaining peace. HIS SEED: i.e. the People of Israel. N. B. in Persia, not Judea. Thus was prepared the way for the emancipat...
Esther 10:1-3. Mordecai's greatness The connexion of this short chapter with the rest of the Book is obscure. It may be a fragment of some other work, which, owing to its subject-matter, came to be a...
XII. Postscript, Esther 10:1-3 TEXT: Esther 10:1-3 1 And the king Ashasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea. 2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the...
_FOR MORDECAI THE JEW WAS NEXT UNTO KING AHASUERUS, AND GREAT AMONG THE JEWS, AND ACCEPTED OF THE MULTITUDE OF HIS BRETHREN, SEEKING THE WEALTH OF HIS_ Mordecia ... was next unto king Ahasuerus ... g...
THE GREATNESS OF MORDECAI 1. The isles of the sea] or, 'coast lands,' i.e. the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. The description of the king's dominion serves to enhance the glory of Mordecai...
SEEKING THE WEALTH] i.e. seeking to promote their welfare: cp. Ezra 9:12....
GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 10 V1 King Xerxes made the people in all his *kingdom pay taxes. V2 The kings of Media and Persia made official records. These records incl...
MORDECAI THE JEW WAS NEXT UNTO KING AHASUERUS. — We have seen that the events recorded in this book carry us to the year 470 B.C., at which time Mordecai was at the zenith of his greatness. How long h...
כִּ֣י ׀ מָרְדֳּכַ֣י הַ יְּהוּדִ֗י מִשְׁנֶה֙ לַ †...
THE FEAST OF PURIM Esther 9:20; Esther 10:1 The Feast of Purim-so called from Esther 3:7 -was held on the 14th and 15th of Adar, our February. The whole of this book was read on the previous evening...
Here we have the last picture of this man Mordecai. It is a singularly fine one. Whatever may have been questionable in some of the methods he adopted with regard to Esther-and here we are not able to...
For Mordecai the Jew [was] next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and (a) accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed....
_Seed. Benjamin (Itin.) informs us, that both he and the queen were buried in the chief city of the Medes, which he calls "the great Hamda;" perhaps the province Mardochæa, (or Greek: Amordakai. Ptol....
(3) For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed. W...
The Feast of Purim I. INTRODUCTION A. Esther 10:1 (NKJV) And King Ahasuerus imposed tribute on the land and [on] the islands of the sea. Esther 10:2 Now all the acts of his power and his might, and...
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...
FOR MORDECAI THE JEW WAS NEXT UNTO AHASUERUS,.... The second man in the kingdom, the principal of the counsellors, and prime minister of state: AND GREAT AMONG THE JEWS; highly respected by them, in...
For Mordecai the Jew [was] next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed. Ver...
_Mordecai the Jew was next unto King Ahasuerus_ Long had he sat contentedly at the king's gate, but now at length he is arrived at the presidency of the king's council. Men of merit may, for a time, s...
For Mordecai, the Jew, was next unto King Ahasuerus, a power next to the king in the empire, AND GREAT AMONG THE JEWS, influential also among his own countrymen, AND ACCEPTED OF THE MULTITUDE OF HIS B...
The Extent of Mordecai's Power....
THE GREATNESS OF AHASUERUS AND MORDECAI This remarkable book closes with the announcement of the greatness of the Persian Empire as ruled over by King Ahasuerus.As with every other kingdom of the nati...
ACCEPTED OF THE MULTITUDE OF HIS BRETHREN; who did not envy his greatness, as men most commonly do in such cases, but rejoiced in it, and blessed God for it, and praised and loved him for his right an...
Esther 10:3 Mordecai H4782 Jew H3064 second H4932 King H4428 Ahasuerus H325 great H1419 Jews H3064 received H7521 ...
CONTENTS: Mordecai made prime minister. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Mordecai. CONCLUSION: Men of virtue and true piety may for a time seem to be kept in obscurity, but often by the hand of God they are s...
Esther 10:1. _Laid a tribute upon the land._ This was to prepare for his great expedition, as some suppose, against Europe. But the heathen historians, so materially contradicting one another, we cann...
_And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land._ A GOOD GOVERNMENT A good government-- I. Has a wise system of taxation. II. Makes its power felt. III. Places good men in office. IV. Promo...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 10:3 SECOND IN RANK TO KING AHASUERUS. Similar to Joseph (see Genesis 41:40). BROTHERS. Fellow Jews....
CRITICAL NOTES.] AND THE KING AHASUERUS LAID A TRIBUTE UPON THE LAND, AND UPON THE ISLES OF THE SEA] Tribute—a levy, tribute-service—means a tax levied, and for this reason that tribute-service belong...
EXPOSITION CONCLUSION.—THE GREATNESS OF AHASUERUS, AND OF MORDECAI UNDER HIM (Esther 10:1.). The Book of Esther might have been expected to terminate with the institution of the Purim feast. All that...
Now chapter 10 just deals with now the exalting of Mordecai. He was made, more or less, prime minister over the Persian Empire. He was given pretty much the office and the role that Haman had had. And...
1 Samuel 23:17; 2 Chronicles 28:7; Daniel 5:16; Daniel 5:29; Esther 3:2