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Esther 3:5-15

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5 When Haman saw that 1Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage to him, Haman was filled with rage.
6 But he disdained * to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; therefore Haman 2sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.
7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth * year of King Ahasuerus, Pur, that is the lot, was 3cast before Haman from day to day and from month to month, until the twelfth * month, that is 4the month Adar.
8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; 5their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king's laws, so it is not in the king's interest to let them remain.
9 "If it is pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry on the king's business, to put into the king's treasuries."
10 Then 6the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha 7the Agagite, 8the enemy of the Jews.
11 The king said to Haman, "The silver is yours, and the people also, to do with them as you please *."
12 9Then the king's scribes were summoned on the thirteenth * day of the first month, and it was written just * as Haman commanded to 10the king's satraps, to the governors who were over each province and to the princes of each people, each province according to its script, each people according to its language, being written 11in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king's signet ring.
13 Letters were sent by 12couriers to all the king's provinces 13to destroy, to kill and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, 14in one day, the thirteenth * day of the twelfth * month, which is the month Adar, and to 15seize their possessions as plunder.
14 16A copy of the edict to be issued as law in every province was published to all the peoples so that they should be ready for this day.
15 The couriers went out impelled by the king's command while the decree was issued at the citadel in Susa; and while the king and Haman sat down to drink, 17the city of Susa was in confusion.
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Esther 3:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ESTHER 3

This chapter gives an account of the promotion of Haman, and of the mortification of him by Mordecai, who refused to bow to him, upon which he vowed revenge on him, and on all his people the Jews, Es 3:1-6, for which purpose, through a false representation of them, he obtained letters of the king, and sent to the deputies of all the provinces to destroy them all on a certain day fixed, Es 3:7-15.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 17

  • 1. Esther 5:9
  • 2. Psalms 83:4
  • 3. Esther 9:24-26
  • 4. Ezra 6:15
  • 5. Ezra 4:12-15; Acts 16:20, 21
  • 6. Genesis 41:42; Esther 8:2
  • 7. Esther 3:1
  • 8. Esther 7:6
  • 9. Esther 8:9
  • 10. Ezra 8:36
  • 11. 1 Kings 21:8; Esther 8:8, 10
  • 12. 2 Chronicles 30:6; Esther 8:10, 14
  • 13. Esther 7:4
  • 14. Esther 8:12
  • 15. Esther 8:11; Esther 9:10
  • 16. Esther 8:13, 14
  • 17. Esther 8:15

Footnotes 8

  • [a] Lit "despised in his eyes"
  • [b] Lit "send a hand against"
  • [c] Lit "he cast Pur...before"
  • [d] Gr "and the lot fell on the thirteenth day of"
  • [e] Lit "written"
  • [f] Lit "given to you"
  • [g] Lit "given"
  • [h] Lit "given"
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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