Esther 9:23 ASV

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Esther 9:1-32

B.—THE JEWS DESTROY THEIR ENEMIES, AND AT MORDECAI’S REQUEST ESTABLISH THE FESTIVAL OF PURIMEsther 9:1-32I. The common defence of the Jews is very successful. Esther 9:1-151Now [And] in the twelfth [twelve] month, that is the month Adar, on the thirteenth [thirteen] day of the same [in it], when [that] the king’s commandment [word] and his decree [law] drew near to be put in the execution [done], in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over [on] them, (though it [and (i.e.,... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Esther 9:1-32

Deliverance by the Sword Esther 9:1-32 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 in the provinces and five hundred in Susa alone. Among these were the ten sons of Haman. No attempt at plunder was made by the victors. The second day was asked for probably to confirm the settled policy of Ahasuerus, and the exposure of the bodies of Haman’s sons was rendered necessary by the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Esther 9:20-32

the Feast of Purim Esther 9:20-32 ; Esther 10:1-3 The Feast of Purim-so called from Esther 3:7 -was held on the 14th and 15th of Adar, our February. The whole of this book was read on the previous evening in the synagogue. Whenever Haman’s name was pronounced, the whole congregation made a terrible noise, and every voice shouted imprecations, “Let his name rot!” The reference to tribute in Esther 10:1 shows that this book is a historical document, preserved in the state archives, and... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Esther 9:1-32

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 were revealed throughout the whole of the provinces. Men who had persecuted the Jews and were looking for the opportunity of wreaking their vengeance by royal decree found themselves filling the places which they had intended their foes to occupy. In memory of the great deliverance the feast of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Esther 9:1-32

Esther 9:6-Nehemiah : . 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 thousands more in the land, ready to carry out the first decree. Should Mordecai and all Jews sit still and see their wives and children butchered, and be butchered themselves? The Hamanites attack: the Jews defend themselves. There fell of those who attacked, in Shushan... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Esther 9:23

Having by this means opportunity to gather themselves together upon any occasion, the chief of them assembled together, and freely and unanimously consented to Mordecai’s desire in this matter, and bound it upon themselves and posterity. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Esther 9:17-28

CRITICAL NOTES.] Esther 9:17-19. Therefore … the fourteenth day] Because the Jews outside of Shushan did all their fighting on the thirteenth, and rested on the fourteenth, as stated in Esther 9:17, Therefore] they made the latter day their day of feasting and joy; but the Jews in Shushan, having fought both on the thirteenth and fourteenth, made the fifteenth their feast day (Esther 9:18). Jews of the villages] Rather of the country places, that is, as distinguished from those that dwell in... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Esther 9:1-32

Chapter 9So, 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 their vengeance upon their enemies, and throughout all the provinces actually there were a great number of people that the Jews actually put to death as they defended themselves. Seventy-five thousand were destroyed.On the fourteenth day of the same month they rested, and made it a day of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Esther 9:1-32

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 the Israelites experienced from them were perpetual. Hence Saul greatly erred in stopping his victories when he had taken their cities, their king, and their cattle. The number which fled was sufficient to multiply, and become a perpetual scourge to the nation that spared them. Now however they... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Esther 9:17-28

Esther 9:17-28On the thirteenth day of the month Adar.A national memorialThis national memorial--I. Was established by supreme authority.II. Was approved by a grateful people.III. Was sanctioned by the marvellous nature of the events celebrated.IV. Was hallowed by the manner of its celebration.V. Was preserved by a wise method.VI. Is perpetuated with good result. (W. Burrows, B. A.)The memorialIt would--1. Keep in remembrance an interposition of the Almighty, without which the Jewish nation and... read more

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Esther 9:1-32

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Esther 9:1-32

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Esther 9:20-32

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Esther 9:1-32

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Esther 9:1-32

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Esther 9:23

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Esther 9:17-28

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Esther 9:1-32

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Esther 9:1-32

The Biblical Illustrator - Esther 9:17-28

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