Deuteronomy 13:14
17:4; 10:18; Nu 35:30; Isa 11:3,4; Joh 7:24; 1Ti 5:192 Samuel 16:4
Behold.14:10,11; Ex 23:8; De 19:15; Pr 18:13,17; 19:2I humbly beseech thee. Heb. I do obeisance.14:4,222 Samuel 19:24-30
Mephibosheth.9:6; 16:3dressed 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 13:3trimmed.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.16:2,3thy servant.4:4 slandered.16:3; Ex 20:16; Ps 15:3; 101:5; Jer 9:4as an angel.14:17,20; 1Sa 29:9 were.Ge 32:10dead men. Heb. men of death.1Sa 26:16didst thou.9:7,8,10,13to cry.2Ki 8:3 Why speakest.Job 19:16,17; Pr 18:13; Ac 18:15Thou.De 19:17-19; Ps 82:2; 101:5 Yea.1:26; Ac 20:24; Php 1:20Esther 3:10-15
took.8:2,8; Ge 41:42enemy. or, oppressor.7:6 to do.Ps 73:7; Jer 26:14; 40:4; Lu 23:25 Then were.8:9-17scribes. or, secretaries. according.1:22; 8:9; 9:27in the name.1Ki 21:8; Da 6:8,12,15sealed.8:2,8,10 by posts.8:10,14; 2Ch 30:6; Job 9:25; Jer 51:31; Ro 3:15both young.1Sa 15:3; 22:19in one day.8:12-14; Jas 2:13the spoil.8:11; 9:10; Isa 10:6 The copy.8:13,14 hastened.Pr 1:16; 4:16sat down.Ho 7:5; Am 6:6; Joh 16:20; Re 11:10the city.4:16; 8:15; Pr 29:2Esther 8:5-17
and, if I.7:3; Ex 33:13,16; 1Sa 20:29I be pleasing.2:4,17letters. Heb. device.3:12,13which he wrote. or, who wrote. For how.Ge 44:34; Jer 4:19; 9:1; Lu 19:41,42; Ro 9:2,3; 10:1endure to see. Heb. be able that I may see. the evil.7:4; Ne 2:3 Behold.1; Pr 13:22him they have hanged.7:10; Ga 3:13 in the king's name.3:12; 1Ki 21:8may 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.3:12and to the lieutenants.1:1,22; 3:12,13; Da 6:1India.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 4:1by posts.3:13; 2Ch 30:6; Job 9:25; Jer 51:21mules.{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.9:2-16to destroy.Ps 37:14,15; 68:3; 137:8; 146:6-9; Eze 39:10and to take the spoil.3:13; 9:10,15,16; Isa 10:6 one day.9:1; Ex 15:9,10; Jud 1:6,7upon 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 9:10Shushan.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 16:19blue. or, violet.1:6and 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 30:5-11had 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 8:10many of the people.Ps 18:43; Zec 8:20-23for the fear.9:2; Ge 35:5; Ex 15:16; De 2:25; 11:25Job 29:16
a father.31:18; Es 2:7; Ps 68:5; Eph 5:1; Jas 1:27the cause.Ex 18:26; De 13:14; 17:8-10; 1Ki 3:16-28; Pr 25:2; 29:7
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