_ESTHER PETITIONS FOR HER OWN LIFE, AND THAT OF HER PEOPLE, WHOSE DESTRUCTION HAMAN HAD DESIGNED. THE KING, ENRAGED, ORDERS HIM TO BE HANGED ON THE GALLOWS WHICH HE HAD PREPARED FOR MORDECAI._ _Before Christ 474._... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF WE HAD BEEN SOLD FOR BOND-MEN, &C.— _Would to God we had been sold for bond-men and bond-women! then I would have held my peace: although our enemy is not of so much worth that damage should be brought on the king._ Houbigant. Esther means, that Haman was not a man of such consequence as to c... [ Continue Reading ]
THE KING—WENT INTO THE PALACE-GARDEN— Partly as disdaining the company of so infamous a person as Haman; partly to cool and allay his spirit, boiling and struggling with a variety of passions; and partly to consider within himself the heinousness of Haman's crime, the mischief which himself had near... [ Continue Reading ]
HAMAN WAS FALLEN UPON THE BED WHEREON ESTHER WAS— It was a custom among the Persians, as well as other nations, to sit, or rather lie, upon beds when they ate or drank; and therefore, when Haman fell down as a suppliant at the feet of Esther, and, as the manner was among the Greeks and Romans, and n... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THEY HANGED HAMAN, &C.— I cannot pass over the wonderful harmony of Providence, says Josephus, Antiq. 50:11; 100:6 without a remark upon the Almighty power and admirable justice of the wisdom of God, not only in bringing Haman to his deserved punishment, but in entrapping him in the very snare wh... [ Continue Reading ]