Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Esther 3:2
Mordecai probably refused the required prostration, usual though it was, on religious grounds. Hence, his opposition led on to his confession that he was a Jew Esther 3:4.
Mordecai probably refused the required prostration, usual though it was, on religious grounds. Hence, his opposition led on to his confession that he was a Jew Esther 3:4.
Verse Esther 3:2. _THE KING'S SERVANTS, THAT WERE IN THE KING'S GATE_] By _servants_ here, certainly a higher class of _officers_ are intended than _porters_; and Mordecai was one of those officers, a...
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...
GATE. lofty porch. Hebrew. _sha'ar._ See note on Esther 2:21. BOWED. Hebrew. _kara', Kara'_, used of idols (1 Kings 19:18; 2 Chronicles 29:29). _Shahah_ is the word used of bowing to kings and
_bowed down_ The Heb. expresses a more profound salutation, after the Oriental fashion, than the A.V. -bow." _the king had so commanded_ Bowing down before a superior was such an established custom t...
MORDECAI BOWED NOT, NOR DID HIM REVERENCE— 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...
III. Perverseness of Haman, Chapter 3 A. Scorn of Mordecai TEXT: Esther 3:1-6 1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his...
_AND ALL THE KING'S SERVANTS, THAT WERE IN THE KING'S GATE, BOWED, AND REVERENCED HAMAN: FOR THE KING HAD SO COMMANDED CONCERNING HIM. BUT MORDECAI BOWED NOT, NOR DID HIM REVERENCE._ All the king's s...
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...
MORDECAI BOWED NOT, etc.] In the apocryphal 'Rest of Esther' Mordecai explains in a prayer to the Almighty that he refused to bow down to Haman, 'that he might not prefer the glory of man above the gl...
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...
BOWED NOT. — Perhaps, rather, _did not prostrate himself,_ for such was the ordinary Eastern practice (see Herod. iii. 86, vii. 7, 34, 136, viii. 118). The objection on Mordecai’s part was evidently m...
וְ כָל ־עַבְדֵ֨י הַ מֶּ֜לֶךְ אֲשֶׁר ־בְּ
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...
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...
And all the king's servants, that [were] in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai (a) bowed not, nor did [him] reverence. (a) The Pe...
Worship him, with divine honours, as he required, in imitation of the kings, Judith iii. 13. On certain solemn occasions, the latter at least exacted this respect from their subjects. But the pious Je...
(2) And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence. (3) Then the ki...
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'S SERVANTS THAT WERE IN THE KING'S GATE,.... Or court, all his courtiers; for it cannot be thought they were all porters, or such only that BOWED AND REVERENCED HAMAN; gave him divine ho...
And all the king's servants, that [were] in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did [him] reverence. Ver. 2. And al...
_For the king had so commanded concerning him_ To bow the knee, and give reverence to all great persons, was a common respect due to them, and there needed not a particular command from the king requi...
And all the king's servants that were in the king's gate, the lower officers of the court, BOWED AND REVERENCED HAMAN, giving him kingly and therefore divine honor, after the Persian custom; FOR THE K...
HAMAN PLANS REVENGE AGAINST MORDECAI...
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...
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...
The reason of which obstinate refusal was, either, 1. The quality of the person; that he was not only an infamously wicked man, and a heathen, but of that nation which God had obliged the Israelites...
Esther 3:1-15:2 kings H4428 servants H5650 kings H4428 gate H8179 bowed H3766 (H8802) homage H7812 (H8693) Haman
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...
_But Mordecai bowed not._ DECISION FOR GOD But why did Mordecai not obey the commandment of the king? It may have been because he had a personal dislike to Haman, but that would not have justified hi...
_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...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 3:1 Main Action. The plot to destroy the Jews (Esther 3:1) is foiled by the courageous actions of Esther and Mordecai ...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 3:2 BOWED DOWN AND PAID HOMAGE. Bowing was the normal way of paying respect to Persian royalty. It was not an act of worship (see Genesis 23:7;...
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...
EXPOSITION MORDECAI, BY WANT OF RESPECT, OFFENDS HAMAN, AHASUERUS' CHIEF MINISTER. HAMAN, IN REVENGE, RESOLVES TO DESTROY THE ENTIRE NATION 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...
1 Samuel 15:3; Deuteronomy 25:19; Esther 2:19; Esther 2:21; Esther 3:1
But, &c. — Probably the worship required was not only civil, but Divine: which as the kings of Persia arrogated to themselves, so they did sometimes impart this honour to some of their chief favourite...