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WHETHER MORDECAI’S MATTERS WOULD STAND - Rather, “whether
Mordecai’s words would hold good” - whether, that is, his excuse,
that he was a Jew, would be allowed as a valid reason for his refusal....
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HAMAN AND HIS WICKED PLOT
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. The promotion of Haman and Mordecai's faithfulness (Esther 3:1)_
2. Haman's proposal and the King's assent (Esther 3:7)
3. The proclamation of death (Esthe...
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ESTHER 3. HAMAN, TO AVENGE A SLIGHT PUT ON HIM BY MORDECAI, PERSUADES
THE KING TO ORDER A MASSACRE OF THE JEWS. The Grand Vizier Haman, Heb.
calls a descendant of that mysterious people, the Amalekite...
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_whether Mordecai's matters would stand_ The Heb. expression signifies
either matters or words. They desired to know whether his refusal
would pass with impunity. In their eyes it was not only a breac...
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III. Perverseness of Haman, Chapter 3
A. Scorn of Mordecai
TEXT: Esther 3:1-6
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After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of
Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his...
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_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....
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3:4 matters (c-26) or 'words.'...
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HAMAN'S REVENGEFUL DESIGN AGAINST THE JEWS
1. The Agagite] It has been suggested that the name is an epithet
meant to recall the Amalekite Agag hewn in pieces by Samuel (1 Samuel
15:33), and intended...
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GOD IS IN CONTROL
Book of Esther
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 3
V1 Some time later, King Xerxes rewarded Haman. Haman was from the
family of Agag and his father was Hammedatha. The king gave more
author...
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WHETHER MORDECAI’S MATTERS WOULD STAND. — This should be, his
_words:_ whether his statement that he belonged to a nation who might
only pay such reverence to God, would hold good....
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וַ יְהִ֗י _כְּ_†_אָמְרָ֤ם_† אֵלָיו֙
יֹ֣ום וָ...
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HAMAN
Esther 3:1; Esther 5:9; Esther 7:5
HAMAN is the Judas of Israel. Not that his conduct or his place in
history would bring him into comparison with the traitor apostle, for
he was an open foe an...
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RACE PREJUDICE BREEDS HATRED
Esther 3:1
Josephus says that Agagite means a descendant of Agag, the common name
for the kings of the Amalekites, Numbers 24:7. It is probably that
something of the natu...
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In this section we have a picture of the procedure of government in
the court of the king. Haman was promoted to supreme authority, and
the portrait of the man is naturally and vividly presented to
us...
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Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened
not unto them, that they (b) told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's
matters would stand: for he had told them that he [was] a Jew....
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(2) 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. (3) Then the ki...
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Haman Ancient Day Hitler
I. INTRODUCTION
A. So far in our study of Esther, we have seen Queen Vashti give up
her crown for not parading herself in front of the Kings drunken
friends.
1. Last week w...
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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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NOW IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THEY SPAKE DAILY UNTO HIM,.... Putting him
in mind of his duty to obey the king's command, suggesting to him the
danger he exposed himself to, pressing him to give the reason...
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Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened
not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters
would stand: for he had told them that he [was] a Jew.
Ver...
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_To see whether Mordecai's matters would stand_ Whether he would
persist in his refusal, and what the event of it would be; _for he had
told them that he was a Jew_ And therefore did not deny this rev...
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Now, it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him and he hearkened
not unto them, that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai's matters
would stand, whether he would succeed in upholding the princ...
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HAMAN PLANS REVENGE AGAINST MORDECAI...
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HAMAN'S ADVANCEMENT AND CONSPIRACY
(vv. 1-15)
After this (though we are not told how long after) King Ahasuerus
promoted Haman, an Agagite, to a position above all the princes (v.
1).Agag had been t...
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1-6 Mordecai refused to reverence Haman. The religion of a Jew
forbade him to give honours to any mortal man which savoured of
idolatry, especially to so wicked a man as Haman. By nature all are
idol...
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WHETHER MORDECAI'S MATTERS WOULD STAND, i.e. whether he would persist
in his refusal, and what the event of it would be. HE HAD TOLD THEM
THAT HE WAS A JEW; and therefore did not deny this reverence t...
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Esther 3:4 spoke H559 (H8800) daily H3117 H3117 listen H8085 (H8804)
told H5046 (H8686) Haman...
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CONTENTS: Conspiracy of Haman. The king's decree to destroy the Jews.
CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Haman, Mordecai.
CONCLUSION: Though religion in no way stands in the way of good
manners, but teaches us t...
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Esther 3:1. _Haman the Agagite._ All the kings of Amalek received the
name of Agag. This man is thought, by most critics, to have been of
the seed- royal of that devoted nation, who bitterly hated the...
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_After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman._
THE PROSPEROUS WICKED MAN
Matthew Henry says: “I wonder what the king saw in man that was
commendable or meritorious? It is plain that he was n...
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ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 3:1 Main Action. The plot to destroy the Jews
(Esther 3:1) is foiled by the courageous actions of Esther and
Mordecai ...
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ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 3:2 BOWED DOWN AND PAID HOMAGE. Bowing was the
normal way of paying respect to Persian royalty. It was not an act of
worship (see Genesis 23:7;...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ESTHER 3:1. AFTER THESE THINGS] After the events related in the former
chapter. The twelfth year of the reign of Ahasuerus, five years after
Esther 2:16, but here somewhat sooner. “Th...
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EXPOSITION
MORDECAI, BY WANT OF RESPECT, OFFENDS HAMAN, AHASUERUS' CHIEF
MINISTER. HAMAN, IN REVENGE, RESOLVES TO DESTROY THE ENTIRE NATION OF
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And as we get into Chapter 3,
After these things the king Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of
Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all
the princes that were with him. And t...
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Daniel 3:12; Daniel 3:16; Daniel 3:23; Daniel 3:8; Daniel 3:9;...
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To see — What the event of it would be. For, &c. — And therefore
did not deny this reverence out of pride, but merely out of
conscience....