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Esther 6:5

ESTHER—NOTE ON Esther 6:5 Haman is there. Haman now waits as Esther had done in Esther 5:1. Again, the timing is perfect. Even though the text does not say so, God is invisibly at work.

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See also Esther 6:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT AND MORDECAI'S EXALTATION CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The sleepless night (Esther 6:1)_ 2. The exaltation of Mordecai (Esther 6:4) 3. Haman anticipates his doom (Esther 6:12)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ESTHER 6. HAMAN IS COMPELLED TO DO PUBLIC HONOUR TO MORDEEAI. Now comes a dramatic scene. Providence is at work, and the clouds are opening. In the night between Esther's two drinking-feasts, the king...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    STANDETH IN THE COURT. As explained in the _Parenthesis,_ Esther 6:4. COME IN. Note the Figure of speech _Anaaiplosis_. Esther 6:5 ending with the same verb which begins the next sentence....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Esther 6:1-11. Mordecai's elevation In this section we are shewn the strange concatenation of apparently trivial circumstances which collectively have the effect of bestowing the highest reward and m...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    VII. Panic of Haman, Esther 6:1-14 A. Appreciation TEXT: Esther 6:1-5 1 On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE KING'S SERVANTS SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, HAMAN STANDETH IN THE COURT. AND THE KING SAID, LET HIM COME IN._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MORDECAI IS HONOURED An account of how the king being reminded of Mordecai's services, and wishing to reward him, consulted Haman, and how Haman, thinking himself the object of the king's interest, c...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 6 V1 That night the king could not sleep. He ordered that someone should bring the book of the official records of his rule. He ordered tha...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ נַעֲרֵ֤י הַ מֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ אֵלָ֔יו...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GRATITUDE FOR A FORGOTTEN SERVICE Esther 6:1 There was a divine providence in this royal sleeplessness. On the very next night Haman would be hanging on the gallows, and it would be too late for him...

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

    In the economy of God vast issues follow apparently trivial things. A sleepless night is in itself transient and almost trivial. Yet it has often been a time of revelation and surprise, affecting the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (5) And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in. Haman is announced. Ahasuerus is ready for his purpose, and Haman for his: but oh!...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Sleepless Nights A man's definition of childish games = the ones at which your wife beats you! A young girl said to her pastor, "I'm afraid I've committed the sin of vanity." To which the pastor rep...

  • 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

    AND THE KING'S SERVANTS SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, HAMAN STANDETH IN THE COURT,.... In the outward court; for into the inward court none might enter without being called, for which he was waiting: AND TH...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in._ Ver. 5. _Behold, Haman standeth in the court_] For into the presence he might not com...

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

    _The king said, Let him come in_ The king thought him the fittest man he had to be made use of, both in directing and in dispensing his favour, knowing nothing of any quarrel he had with Mordecai. _So...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in, namely, into the apartments of the king, since he was probably reclining on his bed....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE KING ASKS HAMAN'S ADVICE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    The same night that Haman had had a gallows made on which to hang Mordecai, the Lord intervened in a most amazing way, causing the king to be unable to sleep and moving him to have the book of records...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-11 See how men's pride deceives them. The deceitfulness of our own hearts appears in nothing more than in the conceit we have of ourselves and our own performances: against which we should constant...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Esther 6:5 kings H4428 servants H5288 said H559 (H8799) Haman H2001 standing H5975 (H8802) court H2691 king...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Haman compelled to exalt Mordecai. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Esther, Haman, Mordecai, Zeresh. CONCLUSION: God's wisdom and grace is seen in the way He times the means of deliverance for His p...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Esther 6:1. _That night could not the king sleep,_ the reveries of his mind being excited by guardian angels. See on Psalms 34:7. The LXX read, “But the Lord moved the king that night by dreams.” RE...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 6:4.] The question, WHO IS IN THE COURT?] means what officer is now present. The king desires to consult with him as to what distinction would be appropriate to Mordecai. It s...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AHASUERUS, BEING WAKEFUL DURING THE NIGHT, HAS THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES READ TO HIM, AND FINDS THAT MORDECAI HAS...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now that night king Ahasuerus couldn't go to sleep (Esther 6:1), He's lying there restless. No doubt God was in the restlessness. And so he said, bring to me the chronicles [the history]; read to me...

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