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TO DESTROY ALL THE JEWS - In the East massacres of a people, a race, a
class, have at all times been among the incidents of history, and
would naturally present themselves to the mind of a statesman....
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HAMAN AND HIS WICKED PLOT
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. The promotion of Haman and Mordecai's faithfulness (Esther 3:1)_
2. Haman's proposal and the King's assent (Esther 3:7)
3. The proclamation of death (Esthe...
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ESTHER 3. HAMAN, TO AVENGE A SLIGHT PUT ON HIM BY MORDECAI, PERSUADES
THE KING TO ORDER A MASSACRE OF THE JEWS. The Grand Vizier Haman, Heb.
calls a descendant of that mysterious people, the Amalekite...
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HAMAN SOUGHT. Another assault of Satan against the nation through whom
the Seed of the woman was to come. See App-23....
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_But he thought scorn etc._ Haman's wrath was so excessive that to
punish the man who excited it seemed to him as nothing. The whole
nation to which his enemy belonged must perish. A little more than...
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III. Perverseness of Haman, Chapter 3
A. Scorn of Mordecai
TEXT: Esther 3:1-6
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After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of
Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his...
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_THEN THE KING'S SERVANTS, WHICH WERE IN THE KING'S GATE, SAID UNTO
MORDECAI, WHY TRANSGRESSEST THOU THE KING'S COMMANDMENT?_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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HAMAN'S REVENGEFUL DESIGN AGAINST THE JEWS
1. The Agagite] It has been suggested that the name is an epithet
meant to recall the Amalekite Agag hewn in pieces by Samuel (1 Samuel
15:33), and intended...
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GOD IS IN CONTROL
Book of Esther
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 3
V1 Some time later, King Xerxes rewarded Haman. Haman was from the
family of Agag and his father was Hammedatha. The king gave more
author...
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HAMAN
Esther 3:1; Esther 5:9; Esther 7:5
HAMAN is the Judas of Israel. Not that his conduct or his place in
history would bring him into comparison with the traitor apostle, for
he was an open foe an...
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RACE PREJUDICE BREEDS HATRED
Esther 3:1
Josephus says that Agagite means a descendant of Agag, the common name
for the kings of the Amalekites, Numbers 24:7. It is probably that
something of the natu...
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In this section we have a picture of the procedure of government in
the court of the king. Haman was promoted to supreme authority, and
the portrait of the man is naturally and vividly presented to
us...
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_Counted. Septuagint, "consulted how to exterminate all the Jews in
the kingdom." --- Assuerus. Hebrew adds, "the people of Mardochai."_...
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(5) And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence,
then was Haman full of wrath. (6) And he thought scorn to lay hands on
Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mord...
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Haman Ancient Day Hitler
I. INTRODUCTION
A. So far in our study of Esther, we have seen Queen Vashti give up
her crown for not parading herself in front of the Kings drunken
friends.
1. Last week w...
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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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AND HE THOUGHT SCORN TO LAY HANDS ON MORDECAI ALONE,.... That would
not be a sufficient gratification of his revenge; he was too low and
mean a person only to wreak his vengeance on; nothing short of...
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And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had
shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy
all the Jews that [were] throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasueru...
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_And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone_ He thought that
particular vengeance was unsuitable to his quality, and to the
greatness of the injury; _wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the...
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And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone, revenge on this
one man alone seemed too insignificant a matter to him; FOR THEY HAD
SHOWED HIM THE PEOPLE OF MORDECAI, the despised race of the Je...
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HAMAN PLANS REVENGE AGAINST MORDECAI...
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HAMAN'S ADVANCEMENT AND CONSPIRACY
(vv. 1-15)
After this (though we are not told how long after) King Ahasuerus
promoted Haman, an Agagite, to a position above all the princes (v.
1).Agag had been t...
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1-6 Mordecai refused to reverence Haman. The religion of a Jew
forbade him to give honours to any mortal man which savoured of
idolatry, especially to so wicked a man as Haman. By nature all are
idol...
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HE THOUGHT SCORN; he thought that particular vengeance was unsuitable
to his quality, and to the greatness of the injury. HAMAN SOUGHT TO
DESTROY ALL THE JEWS; which he attempted, partly, from that im...
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Esther 3:6 disdained H5869 H959 (H8799) lay H7971 (H8800) hands H3027
Mordecai H4782 told H5046 ...
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CONTENTS: Conspiracy of Haman. The king's decree to destroy the Jews.
CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Haman, Mordecai.
CONCLUSION: Though religion in no way stands in the way of good
manners, but teaches us t...
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Esther 3:1. _Haman the Agagite._ All the kings of Amalek received the
name of Agag. This man is thought, by most critics, to have been of
the seed- royal of that devoted nation, who bitterly hated the...
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_Wherefore Haman thought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout
the whole kingdom._
PLOTTING IN VAIN
We proceed to consider the scheme of destruction which Haman arranged
with the utmost craft...
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_And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not. .. then was Haman full of
wrath._
VANITY AND CRUELTY
Haman manifests by his behaviour the intimate connection there is
between vanity and cruelty.
1. Van...
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_After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman._
THE PROSPEROUS WICKED MAN
Matthew Henry says: “I wonder what the king saw in man that was
commendable or meritorious? It is plain that he was n...
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ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 3:1 Main Action. The plot to destroy the Jews
(Esther 3:1) is foiled by the courageous actions of Esther and
Mordecai ...
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ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 3:5 HAMAN... DISDAINED TO LAY HANDS ON
MORDECAI ALONE. Haman hated the Jews and set out to destroy them all.
THE WHOLE KINGDOM OF AHASUERUS. This included Jerusalem and the
surro...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ESTHER 3:1. AFTER THESE THINGS] After the events related in the former
chapter. The twelfth year of the reign of Ahasuerus, five years after
Esther 2:16, but here somewhat sooner. “Th...
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EXPOSITION
MORDECAI, BY WANT OF RESPECT, OFFENDS HAMAN, AHASUERUS' CHIEF
MINISTER. HAMAN, IN REVENGE, RESOLVES TO DESTROY THE ENTIRE NATION OF
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And as we get into Chapter 3,
After these things the king Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of
Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all
the princes that were with him. And t...
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Psalms 83:4; Revelation 12:12...
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Scorn — He thought that vengeance was unsuitable to his quality.
Destroy — Which he attempted, from that implacable hatred which, as
an Amalekite, he had against them; from his rage against Mordecai;...