esther-3:8-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 3:8-15

HAMAN PERSUADES AHASUERUS TO PUBLISH A DECREE COMMANDING THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL THE JEWS IN HIS KINGDOM ON THE ENSUING THIRTEENTH DAY OF ADAR ( Esther 3:8-15 ). Having formed his own resolve, it remained for Haman to bring his proposal before Ahasuerus in such a shape as should secure his acquiescence in it. For this purpose he thought it best, first, to raise a prejudice against the Jews by representing them as bad subjects, causing trouble... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 3:9

If it please the king, lot it be written that they may be destroyed, and I will pay , etc. This startling proposition, to which the king might well have demurred, for even Xerxes could scarcely have regarded such a massacre as a light matter, is followed immediately, and before the king has time to reflect, by the tempting offer of such a bribe as even a king could not view with indifference. Xerxes had once, if we may trust Herodotus, declined to accept from a subject a gift of money equal... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 3:9

The price of blood. Never was a more nefarious bargain proposed than this. That Haman not only plotted to destroy the Jews, but even offered to buy their lives, this is indeed a proof of the cruelty and baseness of his nature. I. CRUELTY APPEALS TO AVARICE . Favourites always amass money; often by the most unscrupulous means. Tyrants always want money to spend on their pleasures and their ostentation. Haman offers to Ahasuerus a large sum to secure his assent to the destruction... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Esther 3:9

Ten thousand talents of silver - According to Herodotus, the regular revenue of the Persian king consisted of 14,560 silver talents; so that, if the same talent is intended, Haman’s offer would have exceeded two-thirds of one year’s revenue (or two and one-half million British pound sterling). Another Persian subject, Pythius, once offered to present Xerxes with four millions of gold darics, or about four and one-half pounds. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 3:8

Esther 3:8. And Haman said unto King Ahasuerus After he had found which would be a lucky day for putting his design into execution; There is a certain people scattered abroad Mean and contemptible, not worthy to be named; and dispersed among the people Who therefore, if tolerated, may poison all thy subjects with their pernicious principles, and whom thou mayest easily crush, without any great noise or difficulty; in all the provinces of thy kingdom For though many of their brethren... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 3:9

Esther 3:9. Let it be written that they may be destroyed Let a written edict from the king be published for that purpose; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver Whether these were Hebrew, or Babylonish, or Grecian talents, we cannot certainly know. But whichsoever they were, it was a vast sum to be paid by a private person, being probably above three millions sterling, and shows how outrageously he was bent on the destruction of the Jews. But undoubtedly Haman expected to get that... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Esther 3:1-15

3:1-7:10 PLAN TO DESTROY THE JEWSHaman plots evil (3:1-15)Some time later, a proud and ambitious man named Haman was promoted to the position of chief minister in the Empire. He apparently demanded that people honour him almost as if he were a god. Mordecai refused, letting it be known that he was a Jew, and claiming that to give Haman such honour was against his Jewish religion. Haman was furious, and decided to get his revenge by killing all the Jews in the Empire (3:1-6). (Esther had now... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Esther 3:8

Haman said. Having got the month and the day (the thirteenth, see Esther 3:13 , compare App-10 ), he could go to the king, There is a certain People. Would it have been necessary for Haman thus to have explained and described the Jews, if they had already received their emancipation? Impossible! We are asked to believe this according to the traditional teaching. But see note on Esther 10:3 , and App-67 and App-58 . scattered abroad, &c. Compare 2 Chronicles 36:23 .Ezra 1:1-4 . There is... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Esther 3:9

Esther 3:9. And I will pay ten thousand talents of silver— The sum which Haman here offers the king in lieu of the damage that his revenues might sustain by the destruction of so many of his subjects, is prodigious for any private man, and shows how outrageously he was bent against the Jews. We read, however, of several private persons in history, who in ancient times were possessors of much greater sums. Pithius the Lydian, for instance, when Xerxes passed into Greece, was possessed of two... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Esther 3:9

9. I will pay ten thousand talents of silver . . . into the king's treasuries—This sum, reckoning by the Babylonish talent, will be about £2,119,000; but estimated according to the Jewish talent, it will considerably exceed £3,000,000, an immense contribution to be made out of a private fortune. But classic history makes mention of several persons whose resources seem almost incredible. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 3:8-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 3:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 3:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Esther 3:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 3:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 3:9

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Esther 3:1-15

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Esther 3:8

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Esther 3:9

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Esther 3:9

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