Ester 1:3

Listen to Ester 1:3
3 En el tercer a帽o de su reinado, hizo un banquete para todos sus nobles y funcionarios. Invit贸 a todos los oficiales del ej茅rcito de Persia y Media, y tambi茅n a los pr铆ncipes y nobles de las provincias.

Ester 1:3 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 1:3

In the third year of his reign he made a feast unto all his
princes, and his servants
The nobles and officers in his court; on what account this was cannot be said with certainty, whether the first day of it was his birthday, or the day of his coming to the throne, on which day Xerxes used to make a feast annually, as Herodotus relates F6:

the power of Persia and Media;
the mighty men therein, the potentates thereof; or the "army", the principal officers of it:

the nobles and princes of the provinces being with him.
The first word Aben Ezra declares his ignorance of, whether it is Hebrew or Persian; Jarchi interprets it governors; and the persons intended by both seem to be the deputy governors of the one hundred and twenty seven provinces who were present at this feast. Xerxes, having reduced Egypt, meditated a war with Greece, to which he was pressed by Mardonius, a relation of his; upon which he summoned the chief men of his kingdom, to have their advice about it F7, which perhaps was taken at this time; for it was in the third year of his reign he resolved upon the war, and began to make preparations for it; and it was usual, at banquets and feasts, that the Persians debated their most important affairs F8.


FOOTNOTES:

F6 lb. (Herodot.) Calliope, sive, l. 9. c. 109.
F7 Ib. l. 7. c. 8.
F8 lb. Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 133.
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Ester 1:3 In-Context

1 El banquete del rey
Estos hechos sucedieron en los d铆as del rey Jerjes,
quien rein贸 sobre ciento veintisiete provincias, desde la India hasta Etiop铆a.
2 En esa 茅poca, Jerjes gobernaba su imperio desde el trono real, ubicado en la fortaleza de Susa.
3 En el tercer a帽o de su reinado, hizo un banquete para todos sus nobles y funcionarios. Invit贸 a todos los oficiales del ej茅rcito de Persia y Media, y tambi茅n a los pr铆ncipes y nobles de las provincias.
4 La celebraci贸n dur贸 ciento ochenta d铆as y fue una gran exhibici贸n de la opulenta riqueza de su imperio y de la pompa y el esplendor de su majestad.
5 Cuando todo termin贸, el rey ofreci贸 un banquete para todo el pueblo que se encontraba en la fortaleza de Susa, desde el m谩s importante hasta el m谩s insignificante. El banquete dur贸 siete d铆as y se realiz贸 en el patio del jard铆n del palacio.
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