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Verse Esther 9:10. _THE TEN SONS OF HAMAN_] Their names are given
above. And it is remarked here, and in Esther 9:16, where the account
is given of the number slain in the provinces, that the Jews _la...
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Most of these names are Persian, and readily traceable to Old Persian
roots.
Esther 9:10
ON THE SPOIL LAID THEY NOT THEIR HAND - As they might have done (see
the margin reference)....
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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 TEN SONS. In all Hebrew manuscripts and printed editions these ten
names are written with the word veeth, being the demonstrative
pronoun. self, or this same, or himself, thus: veeth Parshandatha,...
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Esther 9:1-10. Overthrow of the Jews" enemies
The story, omitting the intermediate months of preparation, now passes
to the date fixed by the decree for the Jews" overthrow....
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B. Progress
TEXT: Esther 9:6-15
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And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred
men.
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And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
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and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,...
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_AND IN SHUSHAN THE PALACE THE JEWS SLEW AND DESTROYED FIVE HUNDRED
MEN._
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 SPOIL LAID THEY NOT THEIR HAND. — This they might have done,
according to the edict (Esther 8:11)....
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עֲ֠שֶׂרֶת בְּנֵ֨י הָמָ֧ן בֶּֽן
־הַמְּדָ֛תָא צֹרֵ֥ר הַ יְּהוּדִ֖ים
הָרָ֑גוּ וּ בַ֨ † בִּזָּ֔ה לֹ֥א...
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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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The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews,
slew they; but (e) on the spoil laid they not their hand.
(e) By which they declared that this was God's just judgment on the
enemi...
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_Goods, in any place, (Tirinus) that they might not appear to be
actuated by the desire of riches, (Calmet) to fall upon the innocent.
How often does this fatal cause blind Christian conquerors! The s...
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(1) В¶ Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the
thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree
drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of...
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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
unackno...
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Esther 9:7....
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The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews,
slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
Ver. 10. _The ten sons of Haman_] Of whom he had so boasted, Esther
5:12, and...
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_But on the spoil laid they not their hand_ The king had granted them
leave to take it, Esther 8:11, but they declined to do it; that it
might appear what they did was not done out of malice or coveto...
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THE ENEMIES SLAIN...
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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 bes...
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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 toget...
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Either because they were desirous it should come into the king's
treasury; or because they would leave it to their children, that it
might appear that what they did that day was not done out of malice...
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Esther 9:10 ten H6235 sons H1121 Haman H2001 son H1121 Hammedatha
H4099 enemy H6887 (H8802) killed H2026 (H8804) lay H7971 (H8804) hand
H3027 plunder H961
ten sons - Esther 5:11; Exodus 20:5;...
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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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_But on the spoil laid they not their hand._
LEAVING THE SPOILT
It is not always good to seize all the money to which one has a legal
right. There are many cases in which a regard to one’s own credi...
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ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 9:1 THE JEWS... DID AS THEY PLEASED (v. Esther
9:5). They took full advantage of the opportunity to defeat their
attackers, as they were allowed to do (see notes on 8:11; 9:11–15...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ESTHER 9:6. IN SHUSHAN THE PALACE THE JEWS SLEW … FIVE HUNDRED]
Shushan the palace is here evidently to be taken in the sense of the
place or city of the palace, equivalent to _in_ o...
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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 HAND ON THEIR GOODS (Esther
9:1). The Jews of all the provinces, having had a...
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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 t...
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Esther 3:1; Esther 5:11; Esther 7:4; Esther 7:6; Esther 8:11; Esther
9:15; Esther 9:16; Exodus 17:16; Exodus 20:5; Genesis 14:23;...
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But, &c. — Because they would leave it to their children, that it
might appear what they did was not done out of malice, or
covetousness, but out of mere necessity, and by that great law of self
— pre...