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**the third day.** The beginning of a new life for Israel. See App-10 .
**inner court.** All houses had courts; a palace had several.
**over against** = right opposite.
**upon his royal throne.** To transact business.
**gate** = porch, or entrance. Hebrew. *pethah.*

**obtained** = won. Compare [Esther 4:11](../../../kjv/esther/4/11) .

**kingdom.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonomy* (of Adjunct), for a year's revenue. Compare [Mark 6:23](../../../kjv/mark/6/23) .

**LET THE KING AND HAMAN COME THIS DAY.** This is the second of the five *Acrostics* ( App-6 ) of the Divine name ( App-4 .) in this book. See App-60 . The second pivot on which the history turns.

**What is thy petition?** He must have seen that there was something behind the mere banquet.
**Petition** = question.
**request** = wish.

**do to morrow.** She still keeps back her petition, showing the king that he had rightly divined that there was something important behind it.

**stood not up.** Notwithstanding the crisis reached; and well knowing the cause of it.
**moved** = stirred. Only here, and [Ecclesiastes 12:3](../../../kjv/ecclesiastes/12/3) .
**Zeresh his wife.** By *Gematria =* 507 (13- x 3). See note on [Esther 9:10](../../../kjv/esther/9/10) , also App-10 .

**told** = recounted.
**children** = sons. He had ten sons. See [Esther 9:10](../../../kjv/esther/9/10) .

**THIS AVAILETH ME NOTHING.** This is the third of the five Acrostics of this book, exhibiting the Divine names ( App-4 .) to the eye. See App-60 .
**Mordecai.** The enmity was not merely personal, but religious; which is the worst form enmity can take.

**gallows** = tree: i.e. a stake to which a criminal was fastened till he died. The same word for cross. Compare [Esther 2:23](../../../kjv/esther/2/23) ; [Esther 7:9](../../../kjv/esther/7/9) ; and see [Acts 5:30](../../../kjv/acts/5/30) ; [Acts 10:39](../../../kjv/acts/10/39) ; [Acts 13:29](../../../kjv/acts/13/29) . [1 Peter 2:24](../../../kjv/1-peter/2/24) .
**to morrow.** There was no delay; but, quick as the action was, it was none too soon for its real usefulness.

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