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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Esther 2:18

He made a release to the provinces, i.e. he took off a good part of those heavy taxes which the Persian kings laid upon their people.

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See also Esther 2:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 18. _MADE A RELEASE TO THE PROVINCES_] Remitted some kind of _tribute_ or _impost_, in honour of Esther, at her coronation, as our kings generally do when they are crowned, ordering a discharge...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A RELEASE - Either remission of taxation, or of military service, or of both....

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ESTHER CHOSEN QUEEN. Ere long Ahasuerus longs for his lost queen's comradeship. He is moved to issue a summons throughout all his territories, commanding all fair maidens to appear as candidates for t...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    RELEASE. a holiday. Hebrew. _hanahah._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _a release_ Heb. _a rest_, an exemption for a certain time from taxation and from military service. Such e.g. had been granted by the Pseudo-Smerdis on his usurpation (Herod. iii. 67). _gifts_ The Heb...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HE MADE A RELEASE TO THE PROVINCES, &C.— The manner of the Persian kings was, to give their queens, at their marriages, such a city to buy them clothes, another for their hair, another for their neckl...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. Selection of Esther TEXT: Esther 2:15-18 15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she r...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN THE KING MADE A GREAT FEAST UNTO ALL HIS PRINCES AND HIS SERVANTS, EVEN ESTHER'S FEAST; AND HE MADE A RELEASE TO THE PROVINCES, AND GAVE GIFTS, ACCORDING TO THE STATE OF THE KING._ The king mad...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    2:18 bounty. (a-32) Or 'power.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CHOICE OF ESTHER TO BE QUEEN. MORDECAI'S SERVICE 1. He remembered, etc.] LXX has 'he thought no more of Vashti, remembering what,' etc....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MADE A RELEASE] Either from taxation or military service. Some would render 'granted a holiday.' ACCORDING TO THE STATE] RV 'according to the bounty of': i.e. with regal generosity....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 2 V1 Later, when the king was not still angry, he thought about Vashti. He remembered what she had done. And he remembered the law that he h...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    RELEASE. — Literally, _rest._ The word only occurs _here: it may_ refer either to a release from tribute or from military service, probably the former. Either, however, would have been consistent with...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּ֨עַשׂ הַ מֶּ֜לֶךְ מִשְׁתֶּ֣ה גָדֹ֗ול לְ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE SERVICE OF A FOREIGNER Esther 2:1 Esther's Hebrew name meant Myrtle. It could not have been easy for her to retain her sweet simplicity amid the corruptions of her time, but her Persian name mean...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this chapter we have a revelation of customs obtaining in the household of the king. We can read them with thankfulness that wherever the purifying forces of revealed religion have operated they ha...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, [even] Esther's (i) feast; and he made a release (k) to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the (l) state of the king....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Servants. Septuagint add, "seven days, and he magnified the nuptials of Esther." (Haydock) --- Rest, from labour. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "remission to all his subjects," of tribute, as was sometime...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (8) So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought als...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    The Beauty Contest I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we saw Queen Vashti loose everything for refusing to come to the party when King Xerxes requested her presence! 1. Not only did she loose her crown a...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN THE KING MADE A GREAT FEAST UNTO ALL HIS PRINCES AND SERVANTS, EVEN ESTHER'S FEAST,.... A feast to all his nobles, courtiers, and ministers of state, on account of his marriage with Esther; which...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, [even] Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king. Ver. 18. _Th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And he made a release to the provinces_ According to Herodotus, it was customary for the Persian kings, upon their accession to the throne, to remit the tribute which was due to them from all their c...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ESTHER CHOSEN QUEEN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast, in honor of the queen, to celebrate his marriage; AND HE MADE A RELEASE TO THE PROVINCES, he relieved them...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    ESTHER CHOSEN AS QUEEN (vv. 1-18) We read nothing more as to Vashti, whether she was simply banished from the king's court or killed. But it was four years before the king married a queen to take Va...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    RELEASE: _ Heb._ rest...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-20 We see to what absurd practices those came, who were destitute of Divine revelation, and what need there was of the gospel of Christ, to purify men from the lusts of the flesh, and to bring them...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Esther 2:18 king H4428 made H6213 (H8799) great H1419 feast H4960 Feast H4960 Esther H635 officials H8269 servants...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Esther made queen. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Mordecai, Esther, Hegai, Bigthan, Teresh, Shaashgaz. CONCLUSION: God sometimes raises up the poor out of the dust to set them among princes. Those...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Esther 2:3. _Gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace._ The polygamy we have hitherto seen is small in comparison of the indulgences of the Babylonian and Persian court. This...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _So that he set the royal crown upon her head._ THE ELEVATION OF WOMAN Gloss it as you may, this is not pleasant reading, and yet not unprofitable, having much to say to us, and especially to women,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Whose name was Mordecai._ MORDECAI Providence opens avenues through which merit may attain elevation. I. Mordecai was kind to his orphan cousin. He brought her up, adopting her as his own daughter....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 2:18 ESTHER’S FEAST honored her as the new queen (see Esther 1:3, Esther 1:5,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 2:15. SHE REQUIRED NOTHING] She made no effort to adorn her person with jewellery or dress to please her own fancy, but left the matter entirely to Hegai, who would be likely...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE QUEST FOR MAIDENS, AND THE CHOICE OF ESTHER TO BE QUEEN IN VASHTI'S PLACE (Esther 2:1). Vashti having ceased to be queen,

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And so, after these things, the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, and he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. Then said the king's servant that ministered un...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 25:8; Esther 1:3; Esther 9:22; Genesis 29:22; Judges 14:10;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    ESTHER, THE JEWISH QUEEN Esther 2:17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS "God works in a mysterious way His wonders to perform." The eye of God had beheld a growing antagonism against His people, Israel, during t...

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