Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Esther 6:12
It is quite consonant with Oriental notions that Mordecai, after receiving the extraordinary honors assigned him, should return to the palace and resume his former humble employment.
It is quite consonant with Oriental notions that Mordecai, after receiving the extraordinary honors assigned him, should return to the palace and resume his former humble employment.
Verse Esther 6:12. _MORDECAI CAME AGAIN TO THE KING'S GATE_] He resumed his former humble state; while Haman, ashamed to look up, _covered his_ _face_, and ran home to hide himself in his own house. _...
THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT AND MORDECAI'S EXALTATION CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The sleepless night (Esther 6:1)_ 2. The exaltation of Mordecai (Esther 6:4) 3. Haman anticipates his doom (Esther 6:12)...
ESTHER 6. HAMAN IS COMPELLED TO DO PUBLIC HONOUR TO MORDEEAI. Now comes a dramatic scene. Providence is at work, and the clouds are opening. In the night between Esther's two drinking-feasts, the king...
HASTED. Hebrew. _dahaph._ See note on Esther 6:10. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ in verses: Esther 6:12; Esther 6:13, emphasizing the excitement which had seized him....
C. Abasement TEXT: Esther 6:10-14 10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's g...
_AND MORDECAI CAME AGAIN TO THE KING'S GATE. BUT HAMAN HASTED TO HIS HOUSE MOURNING, AND HAVING HIS HEAD COVERED._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
MORDECAI IS HONOURED An account of how the king being reminded of Mordecai's services, and wishing to reward him, consulted Haman, and how Haman, thinking himself the object of the king's interest, c...
HAVING HIS HEAD COVERED] as a sign of humiliation and woe: cp. 2 Samuel 15:30; 2 Samuel 19:4; Jeremiah 14:4....
GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 6 V1 That night the king could not sleep. He ordered that someone should bring the book of the official records of his rule. He ordered tha...
MORDECAI CAME AGAIN TO THE KING’S GATE. — He had received his reward, and to the Eastern, who sees continually the Vizier and the poor man exchange places, there would be nothing startling in this res...
וַ יָּ֥שָׁב מָרְדֳּכַ֖י אֶל ־שַׁ֣עַר הַ מֶּ֑ל
GRATITUDE FOR A FORGOTTEN SERVICE Esther 6:1 There was a divine providence in this royal sleeplessness. On the very next night Haman would be hanging on the gallows, and it would be too late for him...
In the economy of God vast issues follow apparently trivial things. A sleepless night is in itself transient and almost trivial. Yet it has often been a time of revelation and surprise, affecting the...
_Covered. To hide his shame, (Tirinus) as Demosthenes did, when the people kissed him. (Plutarch) See 2 Kings xv., and Ezechiel xii. 6._...
(12) В¶ And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered. Reader! observe, and closely observe, the different effects wrought upon the mi...
Sleepless Nights A man's definition of childish games = the ones at which your wife beats you! A young girl said to her pastor, "I'm afraid I've committed the sin of vanity." To which the pastor rep...
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 MORDECAI CAME AGAIN TO THE KING'S GATE,.... To attend his post and office at court; which confirms what has been already hinted, that he was in some office in the court, which this phrase is expre...
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered. Ver. 12. And Mordecai came again to the king's gate] No whit overjoyed by his new hono...
_Then Haman took the apparel_ The king's words undoubtedly produced great commotion in his breast, but he durst not dispute, nor so much as seem to dislike the king's order; but, though with the great...
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate, the entire city knowing of the honor which had been bestowed upon him. BUT HAMAN HASTED TO HIS HOUSE MOURNING AND HAVING HIS HEAD COVERED, in token of the d...
MORDECAI HONORED...
The same night that Haman had had a gallows made on which to hang Mordecai, the Lord intervened in a most amazing way, causing the king to be unable to sleep and moving him to have the book of records...
12-14 Mordecai was not puffed up with his honours, he returned to his place and the duty of it. Honour is well bestowed on those that do not think themselves above their business. But Haman could not...
TO THE KING'S GATE; to his former place and office; showing that as he was not overwhelmed by Haman's threats and malicious design, as appears by ESTHER 5:9; so now he was not puffed up with all this...
Esther 6:12 Mordecai H4782 back H7725 (H8799) kings H4428 gate H8179 Haman H2001 hurried H1765 (H8738) house...
CONTENTS: Haman compelled to exalt Mordecai. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Esther, Haman, Mordecai, Zeresh. CONCLUSION: God's wisdom and grace is seen in the way He times the means of deliverance for His p...
Esther 6:1. _That night could not the king sleep,_ the reveries of his mind being excited by guardian angels. See on Psalms 34:7. The LXX read, “But the Lord moved the king that night by dreams.” RE...
_And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate _ HUMILITY A proud, ambitious man would have said to himself, “No more of the king’s gate for me! I shall direct my steps now to the king’s palace, and ho...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 6:12.] It is quite consonant with Oriental notions that Mordecai, after receiving the extraordinary honours assigned him, should return to the palace and resume his former humb...
EXPOSITION AHASUERUS, BEING WAKEFUL DURING THE NIGHT, HAS THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES READ TO HIM, AND FINDS THAT MORDECAI HAS...
Now that night king Ahasuerus couldn't go to sleep (Esther 6:1), He's lying there restless. No doubt God was in the restlessness. And so he said, bring to me the chronicles [the history]; read to me...
1 Kings 20:43; 1 Kings 21:4; 1 Samuel 3:15; 2 Chronicles 26:20;...
Gate — To his former place; shewing that as he was not overwhelmed by Haman's threats, so he was not puffed up with this honour. Cover'd — In token of his shame and grief for his unexpected disappoint...