Verse 1
HAMAN’S PROMOTION, AND THE EDICT AGAINST THE JEWS, Esther 3:1-15.
1. Haman the son of Hammedatha “The name Haman is probably the same which is found in the classical writers under the form of Omanes, and which in ancient Persian would have been Umana, or Umanish, an exact equivalent of the Greek Eumenes. Hammedatha is, perhaps, the same as Madata or Mahadata, ( Madates of Q. Curtius,) an old Persian name signifying ‘given by (or to) the moon.’” Rawlinson.
The Agagite Perhaps a descendant of Agag, the Amalekite. 1 Samuel 15:9; 1 Samuel 15:32. It was no impossible thing for a descendant of the royal family of Amalek to become an officer in the court of Persia. Some, however, suggest that the Agagite is an epithet which Jewish hatred has applied to Haman, with the design of associating him with the hated Amalekite.
Set his seat above all the princes Made him his chief favourite and prime minister. Thus Nebuchadnezzar and Darius honoured Daniel, who was also a foreigner.
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