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THE SILVER IS GIVEN TO THEE - Some understand this to mean that Xerxes
refused the silver which Haman had offered to him; but the passage is
better explained as a grant to him of all the property of s...
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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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THE PEOPLE ALSO. This was the aim of the great enemy, who was using
Haman as he had tried to use Pharaoh in Egypt. See App-23....
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In the East, confiscation of goods is the invariable accompaniment of
capital punishment, and they are forfeited to the crown. At first
sight the words seem to mean that the king declines Haman's offe...
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B. Subterfuge of Haman
TEXT: Esther 3:7-11
7
In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of
king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day
to day, and...
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_AND THE KING SAID UNTO HAMAN, THE SILVER IS GIVEN TO THEE, THE PEOPLE
ALSO, TO DO WITH THEM AS IT_ _ AND THE KING SAID UNTO HAMAN, THE
SILVER IS GIVEN TO THEE, THE PEOPLE ALSO, TO DO WITH THEM AS IT...
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THE SILVER] The money which Haman had pledged himself to pay into the
treasury the king confers upon him for his services in pointing out a
serious danger to the kingdom (href='190 3:8'>Est 3:8)....
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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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AND THE KING SAID ... — With indifference which seems incredible,
but which is quite in accordance with what we otherwise know of
Xerxes, the king simply hands over to his minister the whole nation
an...
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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר הַ מֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ לְ הָמָ֔ן הַ
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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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(10) And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman
the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. (11) And the king
said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people als...
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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 the king said unto Haman, The silver [is] given to thee, the
people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee._
Ver. 11. _And the king said unto Haman_] Whom he looked upon as an
honest,...
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_The silver is given to thee_ Keep it for thy own use, I do not desire
it. I accept thy offer for the deed. So that he gave him power to draw
up what decree he pleased, and seal it with the king's rin...
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THE PLOT TO DESTROY THE JEWS...
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And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people
also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee. He was given a free
hand to do as he had planned....
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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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7-15 Without some acquaintance with the human heart, and the history
of mankind, we should not think that any prince could consent to a
dreadful proposal, so hurtful to himself. Let us be thankful fo...
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THE SILVER IS GIVEN TO THEE; keep it to thy own use, I do not desire
it, I accept thy offer for the deed....
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Esther 3:11 king H4428 said H559 (H8799) Haman H2001 money H3701
people H5971 given H5414 (H8803) do...
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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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_To do with them as it seemeth good to thee._
THE DANGER OF AN EASY TEMPER
Ahasuerus appears to have been a man of an easy temper, and ready to
confer the greatest obligations, without deliberation,...
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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 3:10 SIGNET RING. A ring used to seal official
documents (Jeremiah 22:24). Haman is empowered to act with royal
authority....
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ESTHER 3:8.] The Jews were at this time a people scattered abroad.
From the fall of Samaria the tribes of Israel had become more and more
dispersed among the people in all the provinc...
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EXPOSITION
HAMAN CASTS LOTS TO OBTAIN A LUCKY DAY FOR HIS ENTERPRISE, AND OBTAINS
A DAY IN THE MONTH ADAR, THE LAST MONTH 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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Jeremiah 26:14; Jeremiah 40:4; Luke 23:25; Psalms 73:7...
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The silver — Keep it to thy own use; I accept the offer for the
deed....