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Verse Esther 6:13. _BUT SHALT SURELY FALL BEFORE HIM._] The
_Septuagint_ adds, ὁτι ὁ Θεος ὁ ζων μετ'
αυτου, _for the living God is with him_. But this is a sentiment
that could scarcely be expected...
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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)...
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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...
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ZERESH. See note on Esther 5:14....
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THEN SAID HIS WISE MEN, &C.— As Mordecai had declared himself a Jew,
to satisfy the people at court that he could not with a good
conscience comply with the king's command relating to the reverence
wh...
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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...
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_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....
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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...
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IF MORDECAI.. FALL BEFORE HIM] LXX adds, 'for the Living God is with
him.'...
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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...
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TOLD. — The same word as on a former occasion. Esther 5:11. Then the
tale was one of boastful pride in what he had, and no less boastful
pride in what he hoped to be; now it is of bitter disappointmen...
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וַ יְסַפֵּ֨ר הָמָ֜ן לְ זֶ֤רֶשׁ
אִשְׁתֹּו֙ וּ
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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...
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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...
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And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every [thing] that
had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him,
If Mordecai [be] of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou...
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_Wise men. Probably the magi, who concluded, from the first
miscarriage, that he undertaking would prove abortive, (Calmet) as
they were also informed of God's protection given repeatedly to the
Jews....
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(13) And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything
that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto
him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou...
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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...
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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...
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AND HAMAN TOLD ZERESH HIS WIFE, AND ALL HIS FRIENDS, EVERY THING THAT
HAD BEFALLEN HIM,.... How he was prevented speaking to the king on
this errand he went; instead of which, he had the mortification...
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And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every [thing] that
had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him,
If Mordecai [be] of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou...
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_Then said his wise men_ The magicians, whom, after the Persian
manner, he had called together, to consult upon this strange
emergency. _If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews_ Which they were
told, a...
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MORDECAI HONORED...
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And Haman told Zeresh, his wife, and all his friends, the men who
usually hover about a powerful person while he is in the good graces
of the sovereign, EVERYTHING THAT HAD BEFALLEN HIM, the report
di...
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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...
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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...
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HIS WISE MEN; the magicians, whom after the Persian manner he had
called together to consult with upon this great and strange emergency.
IF MORDECAI BE OF THE SEED OF THE JEWS; which they were told, a...
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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...
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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...
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_Before whom thou hast begun to fall._
DESCENT EASY
The ascent to honour and greatness is steep, and those who aspire
after them must climb it slowly, and with difficulty; but the descent
is easy, a...
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ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 6:13 IF MORDECAI... IS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
YOU... WILL SURELY FALL BEFORE HIM. Even Haman’s wife and advisers
sense that an irresistible power or person protects the Jewish peo...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
AHASUERUS, BEING WAKEFUL DURING THE NIGHT, HAS THE BOOK OF THE
CHRONICLES READ TO HIM, AND FINDS THAT MORDECAI HAS...
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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...
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1 Samuel 28:19; 1 Samuel 28:20; Daniel 2:12; Daniel 5:26; Esther 5:1
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Wise men — The magicians, whom after the Persian manner he had
called together to consult upon this strange emergency....