Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Esther 6:3
Verse Esther 6:3. What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai] It is certain he found nothing in the record; and had any thing been done, that was the most likely place to find it.
Verse Esther 6:3. What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai] It is certain he found nothing in the record; and had any thing been done, that was the most likely place to find it.
It was a settled principle of the Persian government that “Royal Benefactors” were to receive an adequate reward. The names of such persons were placed on a special roll, and care was taken that they...
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)...
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...
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...
VII. Panic of Haman, Esther 6:1-14 A. Appreciation TEXT: Esther 6:1-5 1 On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read...
_AND THE KING SAID, WHAT HONOUR AND DIGNITY HATH BEEN DONE TO MORDECAI FOR THIS? THEN SAID THE KING'S SERVANTS THAT MINISTERED UNTO HIM, THERE IS NOTHING DONE FOR HIM._ The king's servants that minis...
6:3 servants (c-19) Elsewhere 'young men.'...
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...
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...
WHAT HONOUR AND DIGNITY HATH BEEN DONE. — The names of those who were thought worthy of being accounted “royal benefactors” were enrolled on a special list, and they were supposed to be suitably rewar...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר הַ מֶּ֔לֶךְ מַֽה ־נַּעֲשָׂ֞ה יְקָ
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...
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...
And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai (a) for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him. (a) For he thought it unwort...
_No reward at all. He received some presents from the king; (chap. xii. 5.) but these were so inconsiderable in the opinion of the courtiers, that they esteemed them as nothing at all; (Challoner) and...
(3) And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him. Reader! look still with your...
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...
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 THE KING SAID, WHAT HONOUR AND DIGNITY HATH BEEN DONE TO MORDECAI FOR THIS?.... He judged it an action worthy of regard, and what ought to be rewarded, as it was the saving of his life; but had fo...
And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him. Ver. 3. _And the king said, What...
_There is nothing done for him_ He hath had no recompense for this great and good service. _The king said, Who is in the court_ It is likely it was now morning, when the courtiers used to be in waitin...
And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? He implied that it was self-evident that a royal reward should be assigned to Mordecai. THEN SAID THE KING'S SERVANTS THA...
THE KING ASKS HAMAN'S ADVICE...
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...
1-3 The providence of God rules over the smallest concerns of men. Not a sparrow falls to the ground without him. Trace the steps which Providence took towards the advancement of Mordecai. The king co...
He hath had no recompence for this great and good service; which might happen, either through the king's forgetfulness, or through the envy of the courtiers, or because he was a Jew, and therefore odi...
Esther 6:3 king H4428 said H559 (H8799) honor H3366 dignity H1420 bestowed H6213 (H8738) Mordecai H4782 kings...
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...
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...
_There is nothing done for him._ MERIT OVERLOOKED Modest merit is overlooked, while the aspiring, the ambitious, and the time-serving rise to honour and riches. Nor is ingratitude confined to courts...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 6:2.] The name Bigthana is in Esther 2:21 written Bigthan. ESTHER 6:3.] The king’s question means what honour and reward has been assigned him? What has been apportioned? How...
EXPOSITION AHASUERUS, BEING WAKEFUL DURING THE NIGHT, HAS THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES READ TO HIM, AND FINDS THAT MORDECAI HAS...
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...
1 Chronicles 11:6; 1 Samuel 17:25; 1 Samuel 17:26; Acts 28:8; D
Nothing — He hath had no recompence for this great and good service. Which might either happen through the king's forgetfulness; or through the envy of the courtiers; or because he was a Jew, and ther...