Esther 7:2
PETITION... REQUEST. See note on Esther 5:6. KINGDOM. See note on Esther 5:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
PETITION... REQUEST. See note on Esther 5:6. KINGDOM. See note on Esther 5:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY LIFE. my soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. Life put before petition, and her People put before her request.... [ Continue Reading ]
ARE. have been. SOLD. Implying that. bargain had been made. DESTROYED... SLAIN... PERISH. Note the Figure of speech _Synonymia_ (App-6), to emphasize the urgency of her petition. Compare Esther 3:13. PERISH. See note on Esther 3:13. COUNTERVAIL. make good, or compensate.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANSWERED AND SAID. Note the idiom. threatened and said. See note on Deuteronomy 1:41. WHO IS HE, AND WHERE IS HE... ? This is the fifth Acrostic, which gives (not Jehovah but) the Divine Name "I AM" of Exodus 3:14. See App-60. HE. Note the emphatic repetition of this pronoun.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. THAT THERE WAS EVIL DETERMINED AGAINST HIM. This is the fourth, and last, of the four acrostics exhibiting the name Jehovah in this book. See App-60. THE KING. Note the Figure of speech _Epanadiplosis_, the verse beginning and ending with the same word, marki... [ Continue Reading ]
BED. couch. WILL HE FORCE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._... [ Continue Reading ]
GALLOWS. See note on Esther 5:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY HANGED HAINAN. See note on "Benjamite" (Esther 2:5).... [ Continue Reading ]