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Esther 1:12. Xerxes becomes filled with anger at his queen’s refusal to obey him. After Queen Vashti refused Xerxes’ drunken demands, he burned with wrathful anger: “ 12 But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s order delivered by the eunuchs. So the king became very angry, and his wrath burned within him.” (Esther 1:12). Xerxes ...
Feb 2, 2014 · Esther 1 Commentary (1-4) 1:1 ¶ Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) 2 That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace, 3 In the third year of his reign, he ...
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It turned out to be “equality” to carry the bricks, sweep the streets, and work till they dropped dead in the fields. Let the women of America beware! The seven princes of Persia and Media ( Esther 1:14 ). In the book of Daniel, one finds the expression, “The law of the Medes and the Persians”; but a little later in this chapter, it ...
Esther’s First Banquet (5:1–14) 5:1–8 After three days, Esther went before the king. Commitment can include wisdom, and Esther wisely understands the king’s pleasure in an attractive woman. Although previously fasting, she dressed in her royal robes to stand where the king could see her while not going into him.
Jan 14, 2013 · 1. a corruption of Avestan term for "best" (BDB 255) 2. FEMININE PASSIVE PARTICIPLE of Avestan term "the beloved" or "the desired one" (H. S. Gehman, taken from Carey A. Moore, Anchor Bible, "Esther," vol. 13, p. 8). 3. some scholars think that both Amestris and Vasti are attempts to translate one Persian name.
Clarke's Commentary. Introduction to the Book of Esther. The son and successor of the famous Persian king Xerxes was Artaxerxes, surnamed Longimanus, or, in Persian, Ardsheer Diraz dest, the long-handed Ardshur. This prince, on coming to the throne, had powerful opponents and competitors in the children of Artabanus, uncle to Xerxes, and in his ...
Esther 1:1-22 THE character of Ahasuerus illustrates the Nemesis of absolutism, by showing how unlimited power is crushed and dissolved beneath the weight of its own immensity. The very vastness of his domains overwhelms the despot. While he thinks himself free to disport according to his will, he is in reality the slave of his own machinery of ...
