Esther 3:15
The couriers, who had been sent, hurried to complete the king’s command, but the edict was hung up in Susa immediately. And the king and Haman celebrated a feast, while all the Jews in the city were weeping.
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Genesis 37:25And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ishmaelites, travelers coming from Gilead, with their camels, carrying spices, and resin, and oil of myrrh into Egypt.
Esther 4:16“Go and gather together all the Jews whom you will find in Susa, and pray for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights, and I will fast with my handmaids similarly, and then I will go in to the king, doing what is against the law, not having been called, and so expose myself to mortal danger.”
Psalms 37:7I have become miserable, and I have been bent down, even to the end. I have walked with contrition all day long.
Proverbs 4:16For they do not sleep, unless they have done evil. And their sleep is quickly taken away from them, unless they have overthrown.
Proverbs 31:4Not to kings, O Lamuel, not to kings give wine. For there are no secrets where drunkenness reigns.
Amos 6:6You drink wine in bowls, and you anoint with the best ointments; and they suffer nothing over the grief of Joseph.
Matthew Henry on Esther 3:8-15
Haman Obtains Leave to Slay the Jews. ( b. c. 510.) 7 In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar. 8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is… Read the whole commentary →