Ten thousand talents of silver - According to Herodotus, the regular revenue of the Persian king consisted of 14,560 silver talents; so that, if the same talent is intended, Haman’s offer would have exceeded two-thirds of one year’s revenue (or two and one-half million British pound sterling). Another Persian subject, Pythius, once offered to present Xerxes with four millions of gold darics, or about four and one-half pounds.
Verse Esther 3:9. _LET IT BE WRITTEN THAT THEY MAY BE DESTROYED_] Let it be _enacted_ that they may all be put to death. By this he would throw all the odium off himself, and put it on the king and hi...
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...
_that they be destroyed_ lit. _to destroy them_. Let an edict be issued for their destruction. _I will pay ten thousand talents of silver_ about £3,750,000 sterling. Xerxes, unscrupulous though we kno...
DISCOURSE: 447 HAMAN’S MURDEROUS PROPOSAL Esther 3:8. And Haman said unto King Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom;...
AND I WILL PAY TEN THOUSAND TALENTS OF SILVER— The sum which Haman here offers the king in lieu of the damage that his revenues might sustain by the destruction of so many of his subjects, is prodigio...
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...
_IF IT PLEASE THE KING, LET IT BE WRITTEN THAT THEY MAY BE DESTROYED: AND I WILL PAY TEN THOUSAND TALENTS OF SILVER TO THE HANDS OF THOSE THAT HAVE THE CHARGE OF THE BUSINESS, TO BRING IT INTO THE KIN...
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...
TEN THOUSAND TALENTS] The Persian talent weighed 66 lb. THAT HAVE THE CHARGE OF THE BUSINESS] i.e. those whose business it is to receive money paid into the king's treasury....
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...
TEN THOUSAND TALENTS OF SILVER. — This would be about two and a half millions sterling, being indeed more than two-thirds of the whole annual revenue of the Empire (Herod. iii. 95). Haman may have bee...
אִם ־עַל ־הַ מֶּ֣לֶךְ טֹ֔וב יִכָּתֵ֖ב לְ
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...
Talents. Hebrew, &c., add, "of silver." (Menochius) --- If the Hebrew talent be meant, this sum would be immense for an individual; (Calmet) though Aman might expect to raise it by the confiscation of...
(8) And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neith...
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...
IF IT PLEASE THE KING, LET IT BE WRITTEN, THAT THEY MAY BE DESTROYED,.... That is, a law made, signed and sealed, for their destruction, and letters written and sent everywhere, ordering it to be put...
_If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring [it] into the k...
_Let it be written that they may be destroyed_ Let a written edict from the king be published for that purpose; _and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver_ Whether these were Hebrew, or Babylonish...
If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed, as the Scythians had been massacred about a century before; AND I WILL PAY TEN THOUSAND TALENTS OF SILVER TO THE HANDS OF THOSE THA...
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...
THAT THEY MAY BE DESTROYED: _ Heb._ to destroy them PAY: _ Heb._ weigh...
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...
LET IT BE WRITTEN; let there be a written edict from the king. TEN THOUSAND TALENTS OF SILVER; whether these were Hebrew, or Babylonish, or Grecian talents we cannot certainly know; but whichsoever th...
Esther 3:9 pleases H2895 (H8804) king H4428 written H3789 (H8735) destroyed H6 (H8763) pay H8254 ...
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...
_I will pay ten thousand talents of silver._ HAMAN’S WEALTH: ANCIENT MILLIONAIRES Crassus owned a landed estate valued at more than one million and a half pounds sterling, and Ridorus, after having l...
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 3:9 10,000 TALENTS OF SILVER. About 12 million ounces (750,000 pounds). ⇐...
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...
Genesis 23:16; Matthew 18:24...