On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
give the house.
Job 27:16,17 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay…
Psalm 39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted …
Psalm 49:6-13 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude …
Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: and …
Proverbs 28:8 He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall …
Ecclesiastes 2:18,19 Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because …
Luke 12:20 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required …
came before.
Esther 1:14 And the next to him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, …
Esther 2:7,15 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: …
And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
his ring.
Esther 3:10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the …
Genesis 41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's …
Isaiah 22:19-22 And I will drive you from your station, and from your state shall …
Luke 15:22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and …
2 Samuel 9:7-10 And David said to him, Fear not: for I will surely show you kindness …
Psalm 37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit …
Ecclesiastes 2:18,19-26 Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because …
Ecclesiastes 5:13,14 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches …
Daniel 2:48 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, …
And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
fell.
1 Samuel 25:24 And fell at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity …
2 Kings 4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by …
besought him with tears. Heb. she wept and besought him.
Isaiah 38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD,
Hosea 12:4 Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made …
Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh…
mischief.
Esther 3:8-15 And Haman said to king Ahasuerus…
Esther 7:4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and …
Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,
And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
and, if I.
Esther 7:3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in …
Exodus 33:13,16 Now therefore, I pray you, if I have found grace in your sight, show …
1 Samuel 20:29 And he said, Let me go, I pray you; for our family has a sacrifice …
I be pleasing.
Esther 2:4,17 And let the maiden which pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti. …
letters. Heb. device.
Esther 3:12,13 Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month…
which he wrote. or, who wrote.
For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
For how.
Genesis 44:34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest …
Jeremiah 4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes …
Jeremiah 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears…
Luke 19:41,42 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it…
Romans 9:2,3 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart…
Romans 10:1 Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that …
endure to see. Heb. be able that I may see. the evil.
Esther 7:4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and …
Nehemiah 2:3 And said to the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not …
Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
in the king's name.
Esther 3:12 Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month…
1 Kings 21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal…
may no man reverse. No, not the king himself; and this was the reason that the king was forced not to reverse, but to give a contradictory decree; that if the Jews, pursuant to the first decree, were assaulted, they might legitimately, by virtue of the second, defend themselves, slay their enemies, and even take the spoil.
Esther 8:5 And said, If it please the king, and if I have favor in his sight, …
Esther 1:19 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, …
Daniel 6:8,12-15 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it …
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, …
Hebrews 6:17,18 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise …
Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
the king's.
Esther 3:12 Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month…
and to the lieutenants.
Esther 1:1,22 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus …
Esther 3:12,13 Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month…
Daniel 6:1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, …
India. The Hebrew word {Hoddo,} in Syriac, {Hendoo,} and in Arabic, {Hind,} is rendered India by all the versions. India, or Hindostan, is a large country of the south of Asia, extending from north to south about
Esther 8:8 Write you also for the Jews, as it likes you, in the king's name, …
and according.
Esther 1:22 For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province …
Esther 3:12 Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month…
2 Kings 18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, to Rabshakeh, …
Daniel 4:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all people, nations, and languages, that …
1 Corinthians 14:9-11 So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue words easy to be …
And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:
in the king.
1 Kings 21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal…
Ecclesiastes 8:4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say to him, …
Daniel 4:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all people, nations, and languages, that …
by posts.
Esther 3:13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, …
2 Chronicles 30:6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes …
Job 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Jeremiah 51:21 And with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and …
mules. {Rechesh,} in Syriac, {rechesha,} probably denotes a swift horse.
camels. {Achashteranim,} from the Persian {akhash,} large, and {aster,} a mule, probably, as Bochart supposes, denotes a large mule.
young dromedaries. {Beney harammachim,} the sons of mares, as the word {ramakat} denotes in Arabic; probably an expletive of the preceeding word.
Isaiah 60:6 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian …
Isaiah 66:20 And they shall bring all your brothers for an offering to the LORD …
Jeremiah 2:23 How can you say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? …
Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
to gather.
Esther 9:2-16 The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout …
to destroy.
Psalm 37:14,15 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to …
Psalm 68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yes, …
Psalm 137:8 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, …
Psalm 146:6-9 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which …
Ezekiel 39:10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down …
and to take the spoil.
Esther 3:13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, …
Esther 9:10,15,16 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, …
Isaiah 10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people …
Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
one day.
Esther 9:1 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth …
Exodus 15:9,10 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the …
Judges 1:6,7 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, …
upon the thirteenth.
Esther 3:13-15 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, …
The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
published. Heb. revealed. avenge themselves.
Judges 16:28 And Samson called to the LORD, and said, O Lord God, remember me, …
Psalm 37:14,15 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to …
Psalm 68:23 That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the …
Psalm 92:10,11 But my horn shall you exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall …
Psalm 149:6-9 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword …
Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night to …
Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true…
So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
royal apparel.
Esther 5:1 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal …
Esther 6:8,11 Let the royal apparel be brought which the king uses to wear, and …
Genesis 41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's …
Matthew 6:29 And yet I say to you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not …
Matthew 11:8 But what went you out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? …
Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine …
blue. or, violet.
Esther 1:6 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords …
and with a great crown. Mordecai was now made the chief minister, or vizier, instead of Haman; and was accordingly invested with the royal apparel, in conformity to the custom of the East. So we are informed, in the History of the Revolt of Ali Bey, that on the election of a new sheikh bellet, or chief of the country, in Egypt, the pasha who approves of him invests him with a robe of valuable fur. Perhaps the crown was one of the insignia of the office of vizier. Concerning the blue, fine linen, and purple, see the Notes on
Exodus 25:4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
Exodus 39:27 And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,
the city. Haman was too proud to be popular: few lamented his fall.
Esther 3:15 The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and …
Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when …
The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.
Jews.
Esther 4:1-3,16 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, …
Psalm 30:5-11 For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping …
had light. That is, prosperity and hope. The dark cloud which had so long hung over them was dispelled; and again the sunshine of prosperity beamed upon them.
Esther 9:17 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day …
Psalm 18:28 For you will light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Psalm 97:11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Proverbs 4:18,19 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more …
Proverbs 11:10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices: and when …
Isaiah 30:29,30 You shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; …
Isaiah 35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with …
And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
