TSK - ESTHER 6

  1  Ahasuerus, reading in the chronicles of the good service
    done by Mordecai, takes care for his reward.
 4  Haman, coming to sue that Mordecai might be hanged, gives
    counsel that he might do him honor.
12  Complaining of this, his friends tell him of his final
    destiny.


VERSE 1
- that night.
   * Es 5:8 Ge 22:14 1Sa 23:26,27 Isa 41:17 Ro 11:33
- could not the king sleep.  Heb. the king's sleep fled away.
   * Da 2:1; 6:18
- the book of records.
  As chronicles were composed among the Persians, a more
  instructive and interesting work could not be brought before
  the king; because they were all written in verse, and were
  generally the work of the most eminent poets of the empire.

   * Es 2:23 Mal 3:16


VERSE 2 
 - Bigthana.
   * Es 2:21
- Bigthan.  door.  Heb. threshold.


VERSE 3 
 - What honor.
   * Jud 1:12,13 1Sa 17:25,26 1Ch 11:6 Da 5:7,16,29 Ac 28:8-10
- There is nothing.
   * Ge 40:23 Ps 118:8,9 Ec 9:15


VERSE 4 
 - Who is in the court.
   * Pr 3:27,28 Ec 9:10
- the outward.
   * Es 4:11; 5:1
- to speak.
   * Es 3:8-11; 5:14; 7:9 Job 5:13 Ps 2:4; 33:19

VERSE 5


VERSE 6 
 - whom the king, etc.  Heb. in whose honor the king
  delighteth.
   * Ps 35:27 Isa 42:1; 62:4,5 Jer 32:41 Mt 3:17 Joh 5:23
- To whom.
   * Es 3:2,3; 5:11 Pr 1:32; 16:18; 18:12; 30:13 Ob 1:3


VERSE 7 
 - whom the king, etc.  Heb. in whose honor the king
  delighteth.
   * :9,11


VERSE 8 
 - Let the royal, etc.  Heb. Let them bring the royal apparel,
  wherewith the king clotheth himself.
   * 1Sa 18:4 Lu 15:22
- the horse.
  Herodotus relates, that the kings of Persia had horses
  peculiar to themselves, which were brought from Armenia, and
  were remarkable for their beauty; and if the same law
  prevailed in Persia as in Judea, no man, under the penalty of
  death, might ride on the king's horse, any more than sit on
  his throne, wear his crown, or hold his sceptre.

   * 1Ki 1:33


VERSE 9 
 - bring him.  Heb. cause him to ride.  proclaim.
   * Ge 41:43 1Ki 1:33,34 Zec 9:9


VERSE 10 
 - Make haste.
   * Da 4:37 Lu 14:11 Re 18:7
- let nothing fail.  Heb. suffer not a whit to fall.
   * 2Ki 10:10


VERSE 11 
 - took Hamon.
   * Ezr 6:13 Isa 60:14 Lu 1:52 Re 3:9
- and arrayed.
   * Es 8:15; 9:3
- the street.
  Pitts gives a similar account of the mode of honoring a
  person who turns a Mohammedan, at Algiers:  "The apostate is
  to get on a stately steed, with a rich saddle and fine
  trappings:  he is also richly habited, and has a turban on his
  head, but nothing of this is to be called his own; only there
  are given him about two or three yards of broad cloth, which
  is laid before him on the saddle.  The horse, with him on his
  back, is led all round the city, which he is several hours in
  doing.  The apostate is attended with drums and other music,
  and twenty or thirty serjeants.  They march in order on each
  side of the horse, with naked swords in their hands.  The
  crier goes before, with a loud voice giving thanks to God for
  the proselyte that is made."


VERSE 12 
 - came again.
   * Es 2:19 1Sa 3:15 Ps 131:1,2
- hasted to his house.
   * 2Sa 17:23 1Ki 20:43; 21:4 2Ch 26:20 Job 20:5
- having.
   * Es 7:8 2Sa 15:30 Job 9:24 Jer 14:3,4


VERSE 13 
 - Zeresh.
   * Es 5:10-14
- said his wise.
   * Ge 41:8 Da 2:12
- If Mordecai.
   * Ge 40:19 1Sa 28:19,20 Job 15:24 Da 5:26-28 Zec 12:2,3
- but shalt surely.
   * Job 16:2 Pr 28:18 Ho 14:9


VERSE 14 
 - hasted to bring.
   * Es 5:8,14 De 32:35,36



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