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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Esther 7:4

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 make the deeper impression upon the king's mind. I had held my tongue, because that calamity had neither been irrecoverable, nor intolerable, nor yet unprofitable to the king, for whose honour and service I should willingly have submitted myself and people to any kind of bondage. The enemy could not countervail the king's damage; his ten thousand talents, if paid into the king's treasury, would not repair the king's loss in the customs and tributes which the king receives from the Jews within his dominions.

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See also Esther 7:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Esther 7:4. _TO BE DESTROYED, TO BE SLAIN_] She here repeats the words which Haman put into the _decree_. See Esther 3:13. _COULD NOT COUNTERVAIL THE KING'S DAMAGE._] Even the _ten thousand_ t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The king now learned, perhaps for the first time, that his favorite was a Jewess. ALTHOUGH THE ENEMY ... - i. e. “although the enemy (Haman) would not (even in that case) compensate (by his payment t...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE SECOND BANQUET AND HAMAN'S MISERABLE END CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The second banquet and Esther's petition (Esther 7:1)_ 2. Haman's exposure (Esther 7:5) 3. Haman's miserable end (Esther 7:7)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ESTHER 7. ESTHER ACCUSES HAMAN, AND HE IS HANGED ON THE GIBBET HE HAD PREPARED FOR MORDECAI. On the same day, at her second drinking-feast, Esther suddenly bursts out in impassioned denunciation of Ha...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ARE. have been. SOLD. Implying that. bargain had been made. DESTROYED... SLAIN... PERISH. Note the Figure of speech _Synonymia_ (App-6), to emphasize the urgency of her petition. Compare Esther 3:13...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT IF WE HAD BEEN SOLD FOR BOND-MEN, &C.— _Would to God we had been sold for bond-men and bond-women! then I would have held my peace: although our enemy is not of so much worth that damage should be...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    VIII. Plea of Esther, Esther 7:1-10 A. Massacre Disclosed TEXT: Esther 7:1-6 1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. 2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FOR WE ARE SOLD, I AND MY PEOPLE, TO BE DESTROYED, TO BE SLAIN, AND TO PERISH. BUT IF WE HAD BEEN SOLD FOR BONDMEN AND BONDWOMEN, I HAD HELD MY TONGUE, ALTHOUGH THE ENEMY COULD NOT COUNTERVAIL THE KI...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE EXECUTION OF HAMAN 4. We are sold] an allusion to Haman's tender of 10,000 talents (href='190 3:9'>Est 3:9). ALTHOUGH THE ENEMY, etc.] The rendering is uncertain; RV 'although the adversary could...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 7 V1 So the king and Haman came to dine with Queen Esther. V2 As they were drinking wine, on that second day, the king said to Esther again...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WE ARE SOLD. — See above, Esther 3:9. TO BE DESTROYED.... — Literally, _to destroy and to kill, and to cause to perish._ The identical words used in the king’s proclamation for the destruction of the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י נִמְכַּ֨רְנוּ֙ אֲנִ֣י וְ עַמִּ֔י לְ הַש

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    QUEEN ESTHER Esther 4:1; Esther 7:1; Esther 9:12 THE young Jewess who wins the admiration of the Persian king above all the chosen maidens of his realm, and who then delivers her people in the crisis...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    CRAFT OVERREACHES ITSELF Esther 7:1 Esther had prayed, as we have seen, Esther 4:16, but she acted also. She took such measures as were possible, to gain the king's favor, to awaken his curiosity, an...

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

    Events now moved rapidly forward. By the way of the banquet Haman passed to the gallows. It was a fierce and terrible judgment, and yet characterized by poetic justice. The man who for no reason other...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not (b) countervail the...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Perish. Three terms of the same import express the greatness of the misery. (Haydock) --- King. Whose revenue will be greatly impaired, (Calmet) and character injured, for having given such power to a...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (3) Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: (4) For we are...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    A Banquet Turned Sour . I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week in our study of Esther, we saw the pride of Haman becoming his own destruction! 1. Haman told Xerxes what he thought the king should do to hono...

  • 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

    FOR WE ARE SOLD, I AND MY PEOPLE, TO BE DESTROYED, TO BE SLAIN, AND TO PERISH,.... She makes use of these several words, to express the utter destruction of her and her people, without any exception;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the kin...

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

    _For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed_, &c. By the cruelty of that man, who offered a great sum to purchase our destruction. We have not forfeited our lives by any offence against the gov...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    for we are sold, I and my people, a very fitting expression, since Haman had paid a large sum of money into the royal treasury to bring about the extermination of the Jews, TO BE DESTROYED, TO BE SLAI...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ESTHER PLEADS FOR HER PEOPLE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    HAMAN HANGED ON HIS OWN GALLOWS (vv. 1-10) At Esther's second banquet the king asked her to make whatever petition she desired, with the promise that he would grant it to her.What a surprise it woul...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TO BE DESTROYED, TO BE SLAIN, AND TO PERISH: _ Heb._ that they should destroy and kill, and cause to perish...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 If the love of life causes earnest pleadings with those that can only kill the body, how fervent should our prayers be to Him, who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell! How should we pra...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Esther 7:4 sold H4376 (H8738) people H5971 destroyed H8045 (H8687) killed H2026 (H8800) annihilated H6 ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Esther's banquet and the hanging of Haman. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Esther, Haman, Harbonah. CONCLUSION: Mischief is sure to return upon the person himself who contrives it. The wicked shall...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Esther 7:4. _The king's damage,_ in the loss of subjects and of revenue. Esther 7:8. _They covered Haman's face;_ an indignity done only to persons condemned to die. Esther 7:9. _Hang him thereon._...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _What is thy petition, queen Esther?_ ESTHER’S PETITION 1. When called to speak for God and His people, we must summon up our courage, and act with becoming confidence and decision. Had Esther held h...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 7:4 I AND MY PEOPLE. Esther reveals that she is a Jew and that Ahasuerus has been tricked into ordering the death of the queen he loves. WE HAVE BEEN SOLD. Haman had “bought” the...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 7:2. THE KING SAID AGAIN] Compare Esther 5:6. ESTHER 7:3. MY LIFE, … MY PEOPLE] Esther has had time to carefully prepare her words, and her earnest language rises to the emoti...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AT THE SECOND BANQUET ESTHER DENOUNCES HAMAN, AND THE KING CONDEMNS HIM TO BE IMPALED ON THE CROSS PREPARED FOR HAM

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Haman came in, but he was really troubled by this whole experience. And so, Esther prepared another beautiful banquet for the king, and again, the king in his generous mood said, "Esther, what do y...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 22:23; Amos 2:6; Deuteronomy 28:68; Esther 3:13; Esther 3:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Sold — By the cruelty of that man who offered a great sum to purchase our destruction. Countervail — His ten thousand talents would not repair the king's loss, in the customs and tributes which the ki...

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