Esther 3:14

14 a copy of the writing to be made law in every province and province is revealed to all the peoples, to be ready for this day.

Esther 3:14 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 3:14

The copy of the writing, for a commandment to be given in
every province, was published unto all people
Not only letters were sent to the governors, but a copy, or the sum of the contents of them, was published by heralds, or stuck up as with us, in various places, that it might be publicly known by the common people everywhere:

that they should be ready against that day;
and fall upon the people of the Jews, and slay them, and seize on their goods as a prey.

Esther 3:14 In-Context

12 And scribes of the king are called, on the first month, on the thirteenth day of it, and it is written according to all that Haman hath commanded, unto lieutenants of the king, and unto the governors who [are] over province and province, and unto the heads of people and people, province and province, according to its writing, and people and people according to its tongue, in the name of the king Ahasuerus it hath been written and sealed with the signet of the king,

13 and letters to be sent by the hand of the runners unto all provinces of the king, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy all the Jews, from young even unto old, infant and women, on one day, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month -- it [is] the month of Adar -- and their spoil to seize,

14 a copy of the writing to be made law in every province and province is revealed to all the peoples, to be ready for this day.

15 The runners have gone forth, hastened by the word of the king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace, and the king and Haman have sat down to drink, and the city Shushan is perplexed.