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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 _nat...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר הַ מֶּ֜לֶךְ לְ הָמָ֗ן
מַ֠הֵר
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Esther 4:1
MORDECAI
Esther 2:5; Esther 4:1; Esther 6:10; Esther 9:1
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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MORDECAI HONORED...
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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...
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LET NOTHING FAIL:
_ Heb._ suffer not a whit to fail...
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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Esther 6:10 king H4428 said H559 (H8799) Haman H2001 Hurry H4116
(H8761) take H3947 (H8798) robe...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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.—...
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EXPOSITION
AHASUERUS, BEING WAKEFUL DURING THE NIGHT, HAS THE BOOK OF THE
CHRONICLES READ TO HIM, AND FINDS THAT MORDECAI HAS...
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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...
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2 Kings 10:10; Daniel 4:37; Luke 14:11; Revelation 18:7...