Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Esther 9:18
Verse Esther 9:18. The Jews - assembled - on the thirteenth - and on the fourteenth] These two days they were employed in slaying their enemies; and they rested on the fifteenth.
Verse Esther 9:18. The Jews - assembled - on the thirteenth - and on the fourteenth] These two days they were employed in slaying their enemies; and they rested on the fifteenth.
See Esther 3:13 note....
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF ADAR AND THE FEAST OF PURIM CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The resistance and victory of the Jews (Esther 9:1)_ 2. Esther's petition (Esther 9:12) 3. The institution of Purim (Esther 9:17)...
THE JEWS SUCCESSFUL AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES. Adar 13th, the dreadful day, comes at last. What were the Jews to do? There were many partisans of Haman, some 500 at least in the city alone; there were tho...
The inability of the Jews dwelling in Shushan to make their festival synchronize with that of their countrymen elsewhere brought about the custom that both the fourteenth and the fifteenth days should...
Institution of memorial celebrations 12. _what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces!_ It is best to take this, not, with A.V., as an actual question, but as meaning, It is superflu...
C. Peace TEXT: Esther 9:16-19 16 And the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of them that...
_AND THE KING COMMANDED IT SO TO BE DONE: AND THE DECREE WAS GIVEN AT SHUSHAN; AND THEY HANGED HAMAN'S TEN SONS._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
THE JEWS SLAY THEIR ENEMIES. INSTITUTION OF PURIM 3. All the rulers, etc.] The great massacre described in href='190 9:16'>Est 9:16 is thus represented as being in part the work of the Persian author...
GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 9 V1 The 13th day of the 12th month (the month called Adar) was the day to carry out the king’s law. This was the day when the enemies of t...
ON THE FIFTEENTH DAY... THEY RESTED. — Both the fourteenth and fifteenth days are now kept as the festival of Purim, the former day being the chief....
_וְ_†_הַ_†_יְּהוּדִ֣ים_† אֲשֶׁר ־בְּ שׁוּשָׁ֗ן נִקְהֲלוּ֙...
DELIVERANCE BY THE SWORD Esther 9:1 When the fateful day arrived, the Jews throughout the empire stood on the defense. As it appears from Esther 9:16, seventy-five thousand of their assailants fell i...
In this final section of the Book we have an account, first, of the arrival of the fateful day and all that happened thereon. It was a day when the changed conditions in the case of Haman and Mordecai...
(17) On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. (18) But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together o...
The Feast of Purim I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we saw that even though the king had Haman killed on the gallows he built for Mordecai, the damage he had done to the Jews was still in motion! 1. Es...
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...
BUT THE JEWS THAT WERE AT SHUSHAN ASSEMBLED TOGETHER ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY THEREOF, AND ON THE FOURTEENTH DAY THEREOF,.... Of the month Adar; that is, they gathered together to defend themselves, and...
But the Jews that [were] at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth [day] thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth [day] of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting...
_On the thirteenth day of the month Adar_ This is to be referred to the foregoing words, and the meaning is, the slaughter was made in the provinces on the thirteenth day of this month, when they had...
But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested and made it a day of feasting and gla...
THE ENEMIES SLAIN...
THE JEWS VICTORIOUS (vv. 1-17) On the day prescribed in both decrees, when the enemies of the Jews expected to destroy all the Jews in the Persian empire, the tables were turned completely, for besi...
1-19 The enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them by the former edict. If they had attempted nothing against the people of God, they would not themselves have suffered. The Jews, acting toge...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Esther 9:18 Jews H3064 Shushan H7800 together H6950 (H8738) thirteenth H7969 H6240 fourteenth H702 H6240 fifteenth...
CONTENTS: Vengeance executed; the Jews victorious. Feast of Purim instituted. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Esther, Mordecai. CONCLUSION: When we have received signal mercies from God, we should be quick t...
Esther 9:1. _The enemies of the Jews._ The Chaldean paraphrase says that no nation appeared in arms against the Jews but Amalek; and these were infatuated to their own destruction. The troubles which...
_On the thirteenth day of the month Adar._ A NATIONAL MEMORIAL This national memorial-- I. Was established by supreme authority. II. Was approved by a grateful people. III. Was sanctioned by the...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 9:16 Two different dates arose for celebrating the deliverance of the Jews. In rural areas the fighting was completed on the THIRTEENTH day of Adar, so they celebrated on the FOU...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 9:17. THEREFORE … THE FOURTEENTH DAY] Because the Jews outside of Shushan did all their fighting on the thirteenth, and rested on the fourteenth, as stated in Esther 9:17, THER...
EXPOSITION RESULT OF THE SECOND EDICT' THE JEWS RESIST THEIR ENEMIES, AND EFFECT A GREAT SLAUGHTER OF THEM, BUT DO NOT LAY HAN
So, when this day came, there in the city of Shushan, there were five hundred men that were slain by the Jews (Esther 9:6). Men who were seeking the evil of the Jews. And so they were able to take th...
Esther 9:1; Esther 9:11; Esther 9:13; Esther 9:15...