_NOW IN THE TWELFTH MONTH, THAT IS, THE MONTH ADAR, ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE SAME, WHEN THE KING'S COMMANDMENT AND HIS DECREE DREW NEAR TO BE PUT IN EXECUTION, IN THE DAY THAT THE ENEMIES OF THE JEWS HOPED TO HAVE POWER OVER THEM, (THOUGH IT WAS TURNED TO THE CONTRARY, THAT THE JEWS HAD RULE OVE... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE JEWS GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER IN THEIR CITIES THROUGHOUT ALL THE PROVINCES OF THE KING AHASUERUS, TO LAY HAND ON SUCH AS SOUGHT THEIR HURT: AND NO MAN COULD WITHSTAND THEM; FOR THE FEAR OF THEM FELL UPON ALL PEOPLE._ The Jews gathered themselves ... no man could withstand them. The tables... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE RULERS OF THE PROVINCES, AND THE LIEUTENANTS, AND THE DEPUTIES, AND OFFICERS OF THE KING, HELPED THE JEWS; BECAUSE THE FEAR OF MORDECAI FELL UPON THEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THUS THE JEWS SMOTE ALL THEIR ENEMIES WITH THE STROKE OF THE SWORD, AND SLAUGHTER, AND DESTRUCTION, AND DID WHAT THEY WOULD UNTO THOSE THAT HATED THEM._ Thus the Jews smote all their enemies. The effect of the two antagonistic decrees was, in the meantime, to raise a fierce and bloody war between... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IN SHUSHAN THE PALACE THE JEWS SLEW AND DESTROYED FIVE HUNDRED MEN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID ESTHER, IF IT PLEASE THE KING, LET IT BE GRANTED TO THE JEWS WHICH ARE IN SHUSHAN TO DO TO MORROW ALSO ACCORDING UNTO THIS DAY'S DECREE, AND LET HAMAN'S TEN SONS BE HANGED UPON THE GALLOWS._ Let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according unto this day's... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE THE JEWS OF THE VILLAGES, THAT DWELT IN THE UNWALLED TOWNS, MADE THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH ADAR A DAY OF GLADNESS AND FEASTING, AND A GOOD DAY, AND OF SENDING PORTIONS ONE TO ANOTHER._ A day of ... feasting ... and of sending portions one to another. The princes and people of the E... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MORDECAI WROTE THESE THINGS, AND SENT LETTERS UNTO ALL THE JEWS THAT WERE IN ALL THE PROVINCES OF THE KING AHASUERUS, BOTH NIGH AND FAR,_ Mordecai wrote these things. Commentators are not agreed what is particularly meant by "these things," - whether the letters following, or an account of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_TO STABLISH THIS AMONG THEM, THAT THEY SHOULD KEEP THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH ADAR, AND THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE SAME, YEARLY,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AS THE DAYS WHEREIN THE JEWS RESTED FROM THEIR ENEMIES, AND THE MONTH WHICH WAS TURNED UNTO THEM FROM SORROW TO JOY, AND FROM MOURNING INTO A GOOD DAY: THAT THEY SHOULD MAKE THEM DAYS OF FEASTING AND JOY, AND OF SENDING PORTIONS ONE TO ANOTHER, AND GIFTS TO THE POOR._ That they should make them da... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE JEWS UNDERTOOK TO DO AS THEY HAD BEGUN, AND AS MORDECAI HAD WRITTEN UNTO THEM;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE THEY CALLED THESE DAYS PURIM AFTER THE NAME OF PUR. THEREFORE FOR ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LETTER, AND OF THAT WHICH THEY HAD SEEN CONCERNING THIS MATTER, AND WHICH HAD COME UNTO THEM,_ They called these days Purim, after the name of Pur. Pur, in the Persian language, signifies lot; and the... [ Continue Reading ]