Deuteronomy 13:14

17:4; 10:18; Nu 35:30; Isa 11:3,4; Joh 7:24; 1Ti 5:19

2 Samuel 16:4

Behold.

14:10,11; Ex 23:8; De 19:15; Pr 18:13,17; 19:2

I humbly beseech thee. Heb. I do obeisance.

14:4,22

2 Samuel 19:24-30

Mephibosheth.

9:6; 16:3

dressed his feet.Literally, made his feet, which seems to mean washing the feet paring the nails, and perhaps anointing or otherwise perfuming them, if not tinging the nails with henna; see Note on De 21:12. Sir John Chardin, in his MS. note on this place, informs us, that it is customary in the East to have as much care of the feet as the hands; and that their barbers cut and adjust the nails with a proper instrument, because they often go barefoot. The nails of the toes of the mummies inspected in London in 1763, of which an account is given in the Philosophical Transactions for 1764, seem to have been tinged with some reddish colour.

15:30; Isa 15:2; Jer 41:5; Mt 6:16; Ro 12:15; Heb 13:3

trimmed.Literally, made his beard, which may mean, combing, curling, and perfuming it. But Mr. Morier says that they almost universally dye the beard black, by successive layers of a paste made of henna, and another made of the leaf of the indigo: the first tinging with an orange colour, and the next with a dark bottle green, which becomes jet black when exposed to the air for twenty-four hours.

Wherefore.

16:17

I will saddle.

16:2,3

thy servant.

4:4

slandered.

16:3; Ex 20:16; Ps 15:3; 101:5; Jer 9:4

as an angel.

14:17,20; 1Sa 29:9

were.

Ge 32:10

dead men. Heb. men of death.

1Sa 26:16

didst thou.

9:7,8,10,13

to cry.

2Ki 8:3

Why speakest.

Job 19:16,17; Pr 18:13; Ac 18:15

Thou.

De 19:17-19; Ps 82:2; 101:5

Yea.

1:26; Ac 20:24; Php 1:20

Esther 3:10-15

took.

8:2,8; Ge 41:42

enemy. or, oppressor.

7:6

to do.

Ps 73:7; Jer 26:14; 40:4; Lu 23:25

Then were.

8:9-17

scribes. or, secretaries. according.

1:22; 8:9; 9:27

in the name.

1Ki 21:8; Da 6:8,12,15

sealed.

8:2,8,10

by posts.

8:10,14; 2Ch 30:6; Job 9:25; Jer 51:31; Ro 3:15

both young.

1Sa 15:3; 22:19

in one day.

8:12-14; Jas 2:13

the spoil.

8:11; 9:10; Isa 10:6

The copy.

8:13,14

hastened.

Pr 1:16; 4:16

sat down.

Ho 7:5; Am 6:6; Joh 16:20; Re 11:10

the city.

4:16; 8:15; Pr 29:2

Esther 8:5-17

and, if I.

7:3; Ex 33:13,16; 1Sa 20:29

I be pleasing.

2:4,17

letters. Heb. device.

3:12,13

which he wrote. or, who wrote.

For how.

Ge 44:34; Jer 4:19; 9:1; Lu 19:41,42; Ro 9:2,3; 10:1

endure to see. Heb. be able that I may see. the evil.

7:4; Ne 2:3

Behold.

1; Pr 13:22

him they have hanged.

7:10; Ga 3:13

in the king's name.

3:12; 1Ki 21:8

may no man reverse.No, not the king himself; and this was the reason that the king was forced not to reverse, but to give a contradictory decree; that if the Jews, pursuant to the first decree, were assaulted, they might legitimately, by virtue of the second, defend themselves, slay their enemies, and even take the spoil.

5; 1:19; Da 6:8,12-15; 2Ti 2:19; Heb 6:17,18

the king's.

3:12

and to the lieutenants.

1:1,22; 3:12,13; Da 6:1

India.The Hebrew word {Hoddo,} in Syriac, {Hendoo,} and in Arabic, {Hind,} is rendered India by all the versions. India, or Hindostan, is a large country of the south of Asia, extending from north to south about 2,400 miles, and from east to west 1,800, between 8 degrees and 35 degrees N. lat. and 68 degrees and 92 degrees E. long.; being bounded on the west by the Indus, east by the Birman empire and Thibet, north by the Indian Caucasus, and south by the Indian Ocean. It is probable, however, that all the country east of the Indus was anciently called India.

and according.

1:22; 3:12; 2Ki 18:26; Da 4:1; 1Co 14:9-11

in the king.

1Ki 21:8; Ec 8:4; Da 4:1

by posts.

3:13; 2Ch 30:6; Job 9:25; Jer 51:21

mules.{Rechesh,} in Syriac, {rechesha,} probably denotes a swift horse.

camels.{Achashteranim,} from the Persian {akhash,} large, and {aster,} a mule, probably, as Bochart supposes, denotes a large mule.

young dromedaries.{Beney harammachim,} "the sons of mares," as the word {ramakat} denotes in Arabic; probably an expletive of the preceeding word.

Isa 60:6; 66:20; Jer 2:23

to gather.

9:2-16

to destroy.

Ps 37:14,15; 68:3; 137:8; 146:6-9; Eze 39:10

and to take the spoil.

3:13; 9:10,15,16; Isa 10:6

one day.

9:1; Ex 15:9,10; Jud 1:6,7

upon the thirteenth.

3:13-15

published. Heb. revealed. avenge themselves.

Jud 16:28; Ps 37:14,15; 68:23; 92:10,11; 149:6-9; Lu 18:7; Re 6:10

being hastened.

1Sa 21:8; Ec 9:10

Shushan.

1:2; 2:3; 3:15; Ne 1:1; Da 8:2

royal apparel.

5:1; 6:8,11; Ge 41:42; Mt 6:29; 11:8; Lu 16:19

blue. or, violet.

1:6

and with a great crown.Mordecai was now made the chief minister, or vizier, instead of Haman; and was accordingly invested with the "royal apparel," in conformity to the custom of the East. So we are informed, in the History of the Revolt of Ali Bey, that on the election of a new {sheikh bellet,} or chief of the country, in Egypt, the {pasha} who approves of him invests him with a robe of valuable fur. Perhaps the crown was one of the insignia of the office of vizier. Concerning the blue, fine linen, and purple, see the Notes on Ex 25:4; 39:27.

the city.Haman was too proud to be popular: few lamented his fall.

3:15; Pr 29:2

Jews.

4:1-3,16; Ps 30:5-11

had light.That is, prosperity and hope. The dark cloud which had so long hung over them was dispelled; and again the sunshine of prosperity beamed upon them.

9:17; Ps 18:28; 97:11; Pr 4:18,19; 11:10; Isa 30:29,30; 35:10

a feast.

9:17,19,22; 1Sa 25:8; Ne 8:10

many of the people.

Ps 18:43; Zec 8:20-23

for the fear.

9:2; Ge 35:5; Ex 15:16; De 2:25; 11:25

Job 29:16

a father.

31:18; Es 2:7; Ps 68:5; Eph 5:1; Jas 1:27

the cause.

Ex 18:26; De 13:14; 17:8-10; 1Ki 3:16-28; Pr 25:2; 29:7
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