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Verse Esther 9:18. _THE JEWS - ASSEMBLED - ON THE THIRTEENTH - AND ON
THE_ _FOURTEENTH_] These _two_ days they were employed in slaying
their enemies; and they rested on the _fifteenth_....
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See Esther 3:13 note....
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THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF ADAR AND THE FEAST OF PURIM
CHAPTER 9
_ 1. The resistance and victory of the Jews (Esther 9:1)_
2. Esther's petition (Esther 9:12)
3. The institution of Purim (Esther 9:17)...
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THE JEWS SUCCESSFUL AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES. Adar 13th, the dreadful
day, comes at last. What were the Jews to do? There were many
partisans of Haman, some 500 at least in the city alone; there were
tho...
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The inability of the Jews dwelling in Shushan to make their festival
synchronize with that of their countrymen elsewhere brought about the
custom that both the fourteenth and the fifteenth days should...
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Institution of memorial celebrations
12. _what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces!_ It
is best to take this, not, with A.V., as an actual question, but as
meaning, It is superflu...
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C. Peace
TEXT: Esther 9:16-19
16
And the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered
themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from
their enemies, and slew of them that...
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_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....
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THE JEWS SLAY THEIR ENEMIES. INSTITUTION OF PURIM
3. All the rulers, etc.] The great massacre described in href='190
9:16'>Est 9:16 is thus represented as being in part the work of the
Persian author...
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GOD IS IN CONTROL
Book of Esther
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 9
V1 The 13th day of the 12th month (the month called Adar) was the day
to carry out the king’s law. This was the day when the enemies of
t...
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ON THE FIFTEENTH DAY... THEY RESTED. — Both the fourteenth and
fifteenth days are now kept as the festival of Purim, the former day
being the chief....
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_וְ_†_הַ_†_יְּהוּדִ֣ים_† אֲשֶׁר ־בְּ
שׁוּשָׁ֗ן נִקְהֲלוּ֙...
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DELIVERANCE BY THE SWORD
Esther 9:1
When the fateful day arrived, the Jews throughout the empire stood on
the defense. As it appears from Esther 9:16, seventy-five thousand of
their assailants fell i...
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In this final section of the Book we have an account, first, of the
arrival of the fateful day and all that happened thereon. It was a day
when the changed conditions in the case of Haman and Mordecai...
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(17) On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth
day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and
gladness. (18) But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together o...
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The Feast of Purim
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Last week we saw that even though the king had Haman killed on the
gallows he built for Mordecai, the damage he had done to the Jews was
still in motion!
1. Es...
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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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BUT THE JEWS THAT WERE AT SHUSHAN ASSEMBLED TOGETHER ON THE THIRTEENTH
DAY THEREOF, AND ON THE FOURTEENTH DAY THEREOF,.... Of the month Adar;
that is, they gathered together to defend themselves, and...
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But the Jews that [were] at Shushan assembled together on the
thirteenth [day] thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the
fifteenth [day] of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting...
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_On the thirteenth day of the month Adar_ This is to be referred to
the foregoing words, and the meaning is, the slaughter was made in the
provinces on the thirteenth day of this month, when they had...
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THE ENEMIES SLAIN...
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But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth
day thereof and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of
the same they rested and made it a day of feasting and gla...
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THE JEWS VICTORIOUS
(vv. 1-17)
On the day prescribed in both decrees, when the enemies of the Jews
expected to destroy all the Jews in the Persian empire, the tables
were turned completely, for besi...
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1-19 The enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them by the
former edict. If they had attempted nothing against the people of God,
they would not themselves have suffered. The Jews, acting toge...
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Esther 9:18 Jews H3064 Shushan H7800 together H6950 (H8738) thirteenth
H7969 H6240 fourteenth H702 H6240 fifteenth...
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CONTENTS: Vengeance executed; the Jews victorious. Feast of Purim
instituted.
CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Esther, Mordecai.
CONCLUSION: When we have received signal mercies from God, we should
be quick t...
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Esther 9:1. _The enemies of the Jews._ The Chaldean paraphrase says
that no nation appeared in arms against the Jews but Amalek; and these
were infatuated to their own destruction. The troubles which...
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_On the thirteenth day of the month Adar._
A NATIONAL MEMORIAL
This national memorial--
I. Was established by supreme authority.
II. Was approved by a grateful people.
III. Was sanctioned by the...
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ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 9:16 Two different dates arose for celebrating
the deliverance of the Jews. In rural areas the fighting was completed
on the THIRTEENTH day of Adar, so they celebrated on the FOU...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ESTHER 9:17. THEREFORE … THE FOURTEENTH DAY] Because the Jews
outside of Shushan did all their fighting on the thirteenth, and
rested on the fourteenth, as stated in Esther 9:17, THER...
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EXPOSITION
RESULT OF THE SECOND EDICT' THE JEWS RESIST THEIR ENEMIES, AND EFFECT
A GREAT SLAUGHTER OF THEM, BUT DO NOT LAY HAN
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So, when this day came,
there in the city of Shushan, there were five hundred men that were
slain by the Jews (Esther 9:6).
Men who were seeking the evil of the Jews. And so they were able to
take th...
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Esther 9:1; Esther 9:11; Esther 9:13; Esther 9:15...