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Verse Esther 3:2. _THE KING'S SERVANTS, THAT WERE IN THE KING'S GATE_]
By _servants_ here, certainly a higher class of _officers_ are
intended than _porters_; and Mordecai was one of those officers, a...
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Mordecai probably refused the required prostration, usual though it
was, on religious grounds. Hence, his opposition led on to his
confession that he was a Jew Esther 3:4....
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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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GATE. lofty porch. Hebrew. _sha'ar._ See note on Esther 2:21.
BOWED. Hebrew. _kara', Kara'_, used of idols (1 Kings 19:18; 2
Chronicles 29:29). _Shahah_ is the word used of bowing to kings and
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_bowed down_ The Heb. expresses a more profound salutation, after the
Oriental fashion, than the A.V. -bow."
_the king had so commanded_ Bowing down before a superior was such an
established custom t...
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MORDECAI BOWED NOT, NOR DID HIM REVERENCE— Josephus tells us, that
Haman, taking notice of this singularity in Mordecai, asked him what
countryman he was; and, finding him to be a Jew, broke out into...
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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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_AND ALL THE KING'S SERVANTS, THAT WERE IN THE KING'S GATE, BOWED, AND
REVERENCED HAMAN: FOR THE KING HAD SO COMMANDED CONCERNING HIM. BUT
MORDECAI BOWED NOT, NOR DID HIM REVERENCE._
All the king's s...
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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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MORDECAI BOWED NOT, etc.] In the apocryphal 'Rest of Esther' Mordecai
explains in a prayer to the Almighty that he refused to bow down to
Haman, 'that he might not prefer the glory of man above the gl...
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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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BOWED NOT. — Perhaps, rather, _did not prostrate himself,_ for such
was the ordinary Eastern practice (see Herod. iii. 86, vii. 7, 34,
136, viii. 118). The objection on Mordecai’s part was evidently
m...
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וְ כָל ־עַבְדֵ֨י הַ מֶּ֜לֶךְ אֲשֶׁר
־בְּ
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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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Worship him, with divine honours, as he required, in imitation of the
kings, Judith iii. 13. On certain solemn occasions, the latter at
least exacted this respect from their subjects. But the pious Je...
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(2) And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed,
and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him.
But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence. (3) Then the ki...
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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'S SERVANTS THAT WERE IN THE KING'S GATE,.... Or court,
all his courtiers; for it cannot be thought they were all porters, or
such only that
BOWED AND REVERENCED HAMAN; gave him divine ho...
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And all the king's servants, that [were] in the king's gate, bowed,
and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him.
But Mordecai bowed not, nor did [him] reverence.
Ver. 2. And al...
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_For the king had so commanded concerning him_ To bow the knee, and
give reverence to all great persons, was a common respect due to them,
and there needed not a particular command from the king requi...
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And all the king's servants that were in the king's gate, the lower
officers of the court, BOWED AND REVERENCED HAMAN, giving him kingly
and therefore divine honor, after the Persian custom; FOR THE K...
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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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The reason of which obstinate refusal was, either,
1. The quality of the person; that he was not only an infamously
wicked man, and a heathen, but of that nation which God had obliged
the Israelites...
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Esther 3:1-15:2 kings H4428 servants H5650 kings H4428 gate H8179
bowed H3766 (H8802) homage H7812 (H8693) Haman
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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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_But Mordecai bowed not._
DECISION FOR GOD
But why did Mordecai not obey the commandment of the king? It may have
been because he had a personal dislike to Haman, but that would not
have justified hi...
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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 3:2 BOWED DOWN AND PAID HOMAGE. Bowing was the
normal way of paying respect to Persian royalty. It was not an act of
worship (see Genesis 23:7;...
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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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1 Samuel 15:3; Deuteronomy 25:19; Esther 2:19; Esther 2:21; Esther 3:1
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But, &c. — Probably the worship required was not only civil, but
Divine: which as the kings of Persia arrogated to themselves, so they
did sometimes impart this honour to some of their chief favourite...