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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Esther
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 31,302 words · 152 reading sections
Esther 8:12
Esther 8:12 Ver. 12. Upon one day, in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. The day appointed and fixed in the former letters for the destruction of the Jews, Es 3:13.…
47 wordsSECTION 122Esther 8:13
Esther 8:13 Ver. 13. The copy of the writing, for a commandment to be given in every province, was published to all people,.... A copy of the letters sent to the governors of provinces; the sum and substance of them was published by an herald, or fixed in public places, that all might know the contents thereof; and ta…
122 wordsSECTION 123Esther 8:14
Esther 8:14 Ver. 14. So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out,.... Or on the mules, which in the Persian language were called "ahashteranim"; See Gill on "Es 8:10", being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment; who gave them a special order to make what haste they could, that the Jews might ha…
101 wordsSECTION 124Esther 8:15
Esther 8:15 Ver. 15. And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king,.... And walked or rode about in the city to show himself to his friends: in royal apparel of blue and white; such as the Persian kings wore, and were not allowed to any other, as Xenophon writes {g}: and with a great crown of gold; a coronet, …
293 wordsSECTION 125Esther 8:16
Esther 8:16 Ver. 16. And the Jews had light,.... Prosperity, as opposed to the darkness of adversity in which they had been, see Isa 8:22, or lightsomeness and cheerfulness of spirit, as explained by the two next words: and gladness and joy; at the good news of their deliverance, so unexpected by them; thus light is …
83 wordsSECTION 126Esther 8:17
Esther 8:17 Ver. 17. And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came,.... As they did to every province in the realm, and to every city in the province, where there were any Jews: the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day; they expressed their joy on this…
265 wordsSECTION 127Esther 9:1
Esther 9:1 INTRODUCTION TO ESTHER 9 In this chapter we have an account of the Jews gathering together, on the day fixed for their destruction, to defend themselves, which they did in all the provinces, and smote their enemies; Es 9:1. In Shushan the palace they slew the ten sons of Haman and five hundred men on that …
337 wordsSECTION 128Esther 9:2
Esther 9:2 Ver. 2. The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities, throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus,.... Wherever they lived: to lay hand on such as sought their hurt; who not only threatened them what they would do on this day, but were risen up in arms in quest of them: and no man could withst…
112 wordsSECTION 129Esther 9:3
Esther 9:3 Ver. 3. And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, blessed the Jews,.... Countenanced them and encouraged them, and gave them all assistance in their power; extolled them, as the word signifies, lifted them up, and spoke well of them, or praised the…
95 wordsSECTION 130Esther 9:4
Esther 9:4 Ver. 4. For Mordecai was great in the king's house,.... Not only over Esther's affairs, but was one of the king's counsellors, and was the chief minister of state: and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; what a favourite he was of the king, as well as a relation of the queen, and how wise and j…
98 wordsSECTION 131Esther 9:5
Esther 9:5 Ver. 5. Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction,.... Some with swords, and others with clubs, and staves; as the Targum; and such like slaughtering weapons of destruction: and did what they would unto those that hated them; being then entirely at t…
61 wordsSECTION 132Esther 9:6
Esther 9:6 Ver. 6. And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. Not in the royal palace, where it cannot be thought the Jews had so many enemies, or such a bloody slaughter of them should be made there; but in the city, where the palace was: and this may seem somewhat wonderful, that there s…
125 wordsSECTION 133Esther 9:7
Esther 9:7 Ver. 7-10. And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha, the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they,.... Along with the five hundred men, at the head of which they were: but on the …
131 wordsSECTION 134Esther 9:11
Esther 9:11 Ver. 11. On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king. Either by order of the king, that he might know how many enemies the Jews had in the city, and how many of subjects had been slain; or officiously by others, with an intention to irritate the king ag…
65 wordsSECTION 135Esther 9:12
Esther 9:12 Ver. 12. And the king said unto Esther the queen,.... After the account had been brought in to him: the Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace; the Targum adds, of the seed of Amalek: and the ten sons of Haman: which very probably were all he had; though the Targum, in Es 9:…
150 wordsSECTION 136Esther 9:13
Esther 9:13 Ver. 13. Then said Esther, if it please the king,.... For she was all submission to his will: let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan; for no further did she desire the grant to be extended: to do tomorrow also according to this days decree; one Targum makes the request only that they might ke…
250 wordsSECTION 137Esther 9:14
Esther 9:14 Ver. 14. And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan,.... That the Jews might have leave to seek out and slay the rest of their enemies in Shushan, on the fourteenth day, in like manner as they had on the thirteenth: and they hanged Haman's ten sons; on the same gallows ve…
79 wordsSECTION 138Esther 9:15
Esther 9:15 Ver. 15. For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar,.... As they had on the thirteenth: and slew three hundred men at Shushan; the Targum adds, of the family of Amalek: but there is no reason to confine it to them; it respects all such as we…
103 wordsSECTION 139Esther 9:16
Esther 9:16 Ver. 16. But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together,.... In a body, in their respective provinces and cities: and stood for their lives; defended themselves against those that attacked them: and had rest from their enemies; that selfsame day; all being destroyed by …
91 wordsSECTION 140Esther 9:17
Esther 9:17 Ver. 17. On the thirteenth day of the month Adar,.... This belongs to the preceding verse; and the meaning is, that on this day the Jews gathered together and slew so many thousand of their enemies as before related: and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a feast of gladness: rejoi…
118 wordsSECTION 141Esther 9:18
Esther 9:18 Ver. 18. But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth day thereof,.... Of the month Adar; that is, they gathered together to defend themselves, and destroy their enemies, on both these days, having the decree renewed for the fourteenth as they ha…
87 wordsSECTION 142Esther 9:19
Esther 9:19 Ver. 19. Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting,.... Jarchi observes that those in the villages, who are they that do not dwell in walled towns, observed the fourteenth, and they in towns surrounded with…
298 wordsSECTION 143Esther 9:20
Esther 9:20 Ver. 20. And Mordecai wrote these things,.... The transactions of those two days, and the causes of them, as well as the following letter; some conclude from hence that he was the penman of the book; and so he might be, but it does not necessarily follow from hence: and sent letters unto all the Jews that…
98 wordsSECTION 144Esther 9:21
Esther 9:21 Ver. 21. To stablish this among them,.... That it might be a settled thing, and annually observed in all future generations, what they had now done: that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly; as the former had been observed by the Jews in the pro…
137 wordsSECTION 145Esther 9:22
Esther 9:22 Ver. 22. As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies,.... Having slain all those that rose up against them, and assaulted them: and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning unto a good day; for in this month Adar, on the thirteenth day of it, they expected to h…
346 wordsSECTION 146Esther 9:23
Esther 9:23 Ver. 23. And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them. They engaged to keep these two days as festivals annually, as they had at this time done; not in a religious but in a civil way, not as parts of religious worship, and as additions to and innovations of the law,…
128 wordsSECTION 147Esther 9:24
Esther 9:24 Ver. 24. Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them,.... Had formed a design to exterminate them from the whole Persian empire in one day: and had cast Pur, (that is, the lot,) to consume them, and to destroy them; had cast lot…
116 wordsSECTION 148Esther 9:25
Esther 9:25 Ver. 25. But when Esther came before the king,.... To request of him her life, and the life of her people: he commanded by letters, that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head; that whereas his wicked scheme was to destroy all the Jews, the king, by his secon…
149 wordsSECTION 149Esther 9:26
Esther 9:26 Ver. 26. Wherefore they called these days Purim, after the name of Pur,.... The lot; because of the lots cast by Haman; see Es 3:7,therefore for all the words of this letter; in obedience to what Mordecai wrote in his letter to the Jews, and because of the things contained in it:and of that which they had …
1,224 wordsSECTION 150Esther 10:1
Esther 10:1 INTRODUCTION TO ESTHER 10 This chapter is very short, and just makes mention of a tribute Ahasuerus laid on his realm, Es 10:1, refers to the Persian chronicles, both for the greatness of him, and of Mordecai, and is closed with the character of the latter, Es 10:2. Ver. 1. And the King Ahasuerus laid a …
155 wordsSECTION 151Esther 10:2
Esther 10:2 Ver. 2. And all the acts of his power, and of his might,.... As Xerxes was a very mighty and powerful prince: and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him; the history of that, and which tended not a little to the greatness, dignity and prosperity of the king himself, …
155 wordsSECTION 152Esther 10:3
Esther 10:3 Ver. 3. For Mordecai the Jew was next unto Ahasuerus,.... The second man in the kingdom, the principal of the counsellors, and prime minister of state: and great among the Jews; highly respected by them, in great honour and esteem with them, for which there was great reason: and accepted of the multitude…
312 wordsSource & rights
Public domain; John Gill (1697–1771). Source item is marked Public Domain on Internet Archive.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.