_AFTER THESE THINGS DID KING AHASUERUS PROMOTE HAMAN THE SON OF HAMMEDATHA THE AGAGITE, AND ADVANCED HIM, AND SET HIS SEAT ABOVE ALL THE PRINCES THAT WERE WITH HIM._ After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman ... and set his seat above all the princes - i:e., raised him to the rank of vizi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE KING'S SERVANTS, THAT WERE IN THE KING'S GATE, BOWED, AND REVERENCED HAMAN: FOR THE KING HAD SO COMMANDED CONCERNING HIM. BUT MORDECAI BOWED NOT, NOR DID HIM REVERENCE._ All the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman. Large mansions in the East are e... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE KING'S SERVANTS, WHICH WERE IN THE KING'S GATE, SAID UNTO MORDECAI, WHY TRANSGRESSEST THOU THE KING'S COMMANDMENT?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN THE FIRST MONTH, THAT IS, THE MONTH NISAN, IN THE TWELFTH YEAR OF KING AHASUERUS, THEY CAST PUR, THAT IS, THE LOT, BEFORE HAMAN FROM DAY TO DAY, AND FROM MONTH TO MONTH, TO THE TWELFTH MONTH, THAT IS, THE MONTH ADAR._ In the first month ... they cast Pur - that is, the lot х_ PUWR_ (H6332) (Per... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HAMAN SAID UNTO KING AHASUERUS, THERE IS A CERTAIN PEOPLE SCATTERED ABROAD AND DISPERSED AMONG THE PEOPLE IN ALL THE PROVINCES OF THY KINGDOM; AND THEIR LAWS ARE DIVERSE FROM ALL PEOPLE; NEITHER KEEP_ _ THEY THE KING'S LAWS: THEREFORE IT IS NOT FOR THE KING'S PROFIT TO SUFFER THEM._ No JFB com... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF IT PLEASE THE KING, LET IT BE WRITTEN THAT THEY MAY BE DESTROYED: AND I WILL PAY TEN THOUSAND TALENTS OF SILVER TO THE HANDS OF THOSE THAT HAVE THE CHARGE OF THE BUSINESS, TO BRING IT INTO THE KING'S TREASURIES._ I will pay ten thousand talents of silver ... into the king's treasuries. This sum... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING TOOK HIS RING FROM HIS HAND, AND GAVE IT UNTO HAMAN THE SON OF HAMMEDATHA THE AGAGITE, THE JEWS' ENEMY._ The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman. There was a seal or signet in the ring. Notwithstanding Pliny's denial ('Hist. Nat.' b. 33:6), the fact is undoubted,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING SAID UNTO HAMAN, THE SILVER IS GIVEN TO THEE, THE PEOPLE ALSO, TO DO WITH THEM AS IT_ _ AND THE KING SAID UNTO HAMAN, THE SILVER IS GIVEN TO THEE, THE PEOPLE ALSO, TO DO WITH THEM AS IT SEEMETH GOOD TO THEE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN WERE THE KING'S SCRIBES CALLED ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH, AND THERE WAS WRITTEN ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HAMAN HAD COMMANDED UNTO THE KING'S LIEUTENANTS, AND TO THE GOVERNORS THAT WERE OVER EVERY PROVINCE, AND TO THE RULERS OF EVERY PEOPLE OF EVERY PROVINCE ACCORDING TO THE WRITING... [ Continue Reading ]