ESTHER CHAPTER 7 Esther maketh a petition for her own and her people's life, ESTHER 7:1. She accuseth Haman, who had determined to destroy the Jews, ESTHER 7:5,6. Haman is afraid, ESTHER 7:6. The king in his anger, ESTHER 7:7,8, being informed of the gallows which Haman had built for Mordecai, cause... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BANQUET OF WINE; so it is called, to note that it was not designed for a feast to fill their bellies, but rather for a banquet to delight and please their palates with wine and other delicacies: SEE POOLE ON "ESTHER 5:8".... [ Continue Reading ]
It is my humble and only request, that thou wouldst not give me up to the malice of that man that designs to take away my life, and will certainly do it, if thou dost not prevent it. AND MY PEOPLE; and the lives (which is easily supplied out of the foregoing branch) _of my people_ the Jews, of whom... [ Continue Reading ]
WE ARE SOLD by the craft and cruelty of that man, who offered a great sum of money to purchase our destruction. I AND MY PEOPLE; for we are all given up to his malice and rage, without any exception of my own person. TO BE DESTROYED, TO BE SLAIN, AND TO PERISH: she useth variety of expressions to ma... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO IS HE? and WHERE IS HE? The expressions are short and doubled, as proceeding from a discomposed and enraged mind. TO DO SO, i.e. to circumvent me, and by subtlety to procure an irrevocable decree, whereby not only my estate should be so much impaired, and so many of my innocent subjects be destr... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ADVERSARY AND ENEMY of the king, and of my person and people.... [ Continue Reading ]
WENT INTO THE PALACE GARDEN; partly, as disdaining the company and sight of so ungrateful and audacious a person; partly, to cool and allay his troubled and inflamed spirits; and partly, to consider within himself the heinousness of Haman's crime, and the mischief which himself had done by his own r... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON THE BED; or, _by_ or _beside the bed_; on which the queen sat at meat, after the manner; where he was fallen upon his knees, and upon the ground, at her feet, as humble suppliants used to do, and as the queen did at the king's feet, ESTHER 8:3. WILL HE FORCE THE QUEEN ALSO? will he now attempt... [ Continue Reading ]
HARBONAH knew this either by his own observation, or by the information of some of his brethren, who were lately sent to Haman's house, ESTHER 6:14, where they might easily see it, or at least hear of it. And this he said, either out of a distaste which he had taken against Haman for his great insol... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GALLOWS THAT HE HAD PREPARED; which stood in his own house, as was now said, and made the punishment more grievous and ignominious. THEN WAS THE KING'S WRATH PACIFIED; judgment being now most justly executed upon this abominable criminal.... [ Continue Reading ]