Esther 5:9
Haman’s Rage Against Mordecai
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What does Esther 5:9 mean?
Then went Haman forth that day, joyful, and with a glad
heart,
&c.] From court to his own house
but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he
stood not up,
nor moved for him;
did not show him the least degree even of civil respect; which he
refused to do, partly lest it should be interpreted an adoration
of him, and partly because it was well known to him he had formed
a scheme for the destruction of him and all his people; and the
rather he refused it to him, as Esther was about to make
intercession with the king to revoke his decree, of the success
of which he had no doubt; and therefore had nothing to fear from
him, but treated him with the utmost contempt, as he deserved:
he was full of wrath against Mordecai;
it was a sad mortification to him, and a great allay of that joy
and elation of mind on account of the favour he was in; not with
the king only, but the queen also, as he imagined.
