By “Shushan the palace (or the fort),” is probably meant the whole of the upper town, which occupied an area of more than 100 acres, and contained many residences besides the actual palace. The Jews would not have ventured to shed blood within the palace-precincts.
Verse Esther 9:6. _AND IN SHUSHAN_] It is strange that in this city, where the king's mind must have been so well known, there should be found _five hundred_ persons to rise up in hostility against th...
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF ADAR AND THE FEAST OF PURIM CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The resistance and victory of the Jews (Esther 9:1)_ 2. Esther's petition (Esther 9:12) 3. The institution of Purim (Esther 9:17)...
THE JEWS SUCCESSFUL AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES. Adar 13th, the dreadful day, comes at last. What were the Jews to do? There were many partisans of Haman, some 500 at least in the city alone; there were tho...
DESTROYED, &C. Note that they took no advantage of the permission given in Esther 8:11....
_in Shushan the palace_ The word seems to have a somewhat wider sense here than earlier in the Book (see note on Esther 1:2), meaning perhaps _royal city_. Bloodshed within the palace proper would not...
Esther 9:1-10. Overthrow of the Jews" enemies The story, omitting the intermediate months of preparation, now passes to the date fixed by the decree for the Jews" overthrow....
B. Progress TEXT: Esther 9:6-15 6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. 7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, 8 and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,...
_AND IN SHUSHAN THE PALACE THE JEWS SLEW AND DESTROYED FIVE HUNDRED MEN._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE JEWS SLAY THEIR ENEMIES. INSTITUTION OF PURIM 3. All the rulers, etc.] The great massacre described in href='190 9:16'>Est 9:16 is thus represented as being in part the work of the Persian author...
GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 9 V1 The 13th day of the 12th month (the month called Adar) was the day to carry out the king’s law. This was the day when the enemies of t...
THE PALACE. — Doubtless the whole royal city, rather than the palace strictly so called. It is obvious that even Xerxes would hardly have allowed bloodshed, otherwise than by his direct orders, within...
וּ בְ שׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַ בִּירָ֗ה הָרְג֤וּ הַ
DELIVERANCE BY THE SWORD Esther 9:1 When the fateful day arrived, the Jews throughout the empire stood on the defense. As it appears from Esther 9:16, seventy-five thousand of their assailants fell i...
In this final section of the Book we have an account, first, of the arrival of the fateful day and all that happened thereon. It was a day when the changed conditions in the case of Haman and Mordecai...
And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed (d) five hundred men. (d) Besides the three hundred that they slew the second day, (Esther 9:15)....
Sons. It seems as if they had been slain with their father, ver. 10. See chap. vii. 9. (Calmet) --- Yet, as the contrary would appear from chap. xvi. 18, we may suppose that they were at least (Haydoc...
(1) В¶ Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of...
The Feast of Purim I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we saw that even though the king had Haman killed on the gallows he built for Mordecai, the damage he had done to the Jews was still in motion! 1. Es...
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 IN SHUSHAN THE PALACE THE JEWS SLEW AND DESTROYED FIVE HUNDRED MEN. Not in the royal palace, where it cannot be thought the Jews had so many enemies, or such a bloody slaughter of them should be m...
And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. Ver. 6. _And in Shushan the palace_] One would wonder that any here should offer to stir against the Jews, so much favoured by...
_In Shushan the palace_ That is, in the city where the palace was; it not being probable, either that they would make such a slaughter in the palace itself, or that they would be permitted so to do; _...
And in Shushan, the palace, the section of the capital where the royal palace was situated, THE JEWS SLEW AND DESTROYED FIVE HUNDRED MEN....
THE ENEMIES SLAIN...
THE JEWS VICTORIOUS (vv. 1-17) On the day prescribed in both decrees, when the enemies of the Jews expected to destroy all the Jews in the Persian empire, the tables were turned completely, for besi...
1-19 The enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them by the former edict. If they had attempted nothing against the people of God, they would not themselves have suffered. The Jews, acting toge...
IN SHUSHAN THE PALACE, i.e. in the city so called, as was noted before, ESTHER 1:2; it not being probable either that they would make such a slaughter in the king's palace, or that they would be suffe...
Esther 9:6 Shushan H7800 citadel H1002 Jews H3064 killed H2026 (H8804) destroyed H6 (H8763) five H2568 hundred...
CONTENTS: Vengeance executed; the Jews victorious. Feast of Purim instituted. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Esther, Mordecai. CONCLUSION: When we have received signal mercies from God, we should be quick t...
Esther 9:1. _The enemies of the Jews._ The Chaldean paraphrase says that no nation appeared in arms against the Jews but Amalek; and these were infatuated to their own destruction. The troubles which...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 9:1 THE JEWS... DID AS THEY PLEASED (v. Esther 9:5). They took full advantage of the opportunity to defeat their attackers, as they were allowed to do (s
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 9:6. IN SHUSHAN THE PALACE THE JEWS SLEW … FIVE HUNDRED] Shushan the palace is here evidently to be taken in the sense of the place or city of the palace, equivalent to _in_ or...
EXPOSITION RESULT OF THE SECOND EDICT' THE JEWS RESIST THEIR ENEMIES, AND EFFECT A GREAT SLAUGHTER OF THEM, BUT DO NOT LAY HAN
So, when this day came, there in the city of Shushan, there were five hundred men that were slain by the Jews (Esther 9:6). Men who were seeking the evil of the Jews. And so they were able to take th...
Esther 3:15...
Shushan — In the city so called. Slew — Whom they knew to be such as would watch all opportunities to destroy them; which also they might possibly now attempt to do....