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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Esther 6:10

Verse Esther 6:10. Make haste, and take the apparel - and do even so to Mordecai] O mortifying reverse of human fortune! How could Haman bear this? The Targumist might speak according to nature when he said that "Haman besought the king to kill him rather than degrade him so." How astonishing is the conduct of Divine providence in all this business! From it we plainly see that there is neither counsel nor wisdom against the Lord; and that he who digs a pit for his neighbour, is sure to fall into it himself.

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See also Esther 6:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MAKE HASTE. be expeditious. Hebrew. _mahar,_ as in Esther 5:5. not _dahaph_ (to urge oneself), as in Esther 6:12; Esther 3:15. or _bahal_ (to hurry away), as in...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Esther 6:1-11. Mordecai's elevation In this section we are shewn the strange concatenation of apparently trivial circumstances which collectively have the effect of bestowing the highest reward and m...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 GATE: LET NOTHING FAIL OF ALL THAT THOU...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE JEW. — Mordecai’s nationality would doubtless be given in the book of records. Thus Esther, in urging her petition by-and-by, has already on her side the king’s good-will to one prominent member o...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר הַ מֶּ֜לֶךְ לְ הָמָ֗ן מַ֠הֵר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Esther 4:1 MORDECAI Esther 2:5; Esther 4:1; Esther 6:10; Esther 9:1

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Spoken. The distinction was not for one day only. Mardochai might afterwards wear the tiara, &c. God thus clearly manifested that he would resist the proud, and give grace to the humble. (St. James iv...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (6) So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more t...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN THE KING SAID TO HAMAN, MAKE HASTE,.... And without delay go into the royal treasury, or wardrobe, as the Targum adds: "and take the apparel"; the royal robe, the purple one, or one of the precio...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 gate: let nothing fail of all that thou...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The king said, Do even so to Mordecai the Jew_ If the king had but said as Haman expected, _Thou art the man_, what a fair opportunity would be have had to perform the errand he came on, and to have...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    MORDECAI HONORED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then the king said to Haman, who himself was a prince of the realm, 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 GA...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    LET NOTHING FAIL: _ Heb._ suffer not a whit to fail...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-11 See how men's pride deceives them. The deceitfulness of our own hearts appears in nothing more than in the conceit we have of ourselves and our own performances: against which we should constant...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Esther 6:10 king H4428 said H559 (H8799) Haman H2001 Hurry H4116 (H8761) take H3947 (H8798) robe...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour?_ PRIDE ASSOCIATED WITH FOLLY 1. In Haman honouring Mordecai we have a remarkable verification of the fable of the dog and the shad...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 6:6 WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO THE MAN... THE KING DELIGHTS TO HONOR? Neither Ahasuerus nor Haman is aware of the irony in the question. Haman’s response shows both the extent of his...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 6:6.] When the king had asked the question, Haman thought within himself, TO WHOM WOULD THE KING DELIGHT TO DO HONOUR MORE THAN TO MYSELF?] Going beyond me, more than myself.—...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AHASUERUS, BEING WAKEFUL DURING THE NIGHT, HAS THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES READ TO HIM, AND FINDS THAT MORDECAI HAS...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 10:10; Daniel 4:37; Luke 14:11; Revelation 18:7...

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