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**On that day.** Contrast "On that night", [Esther 6:1](../../../kjv/esther/6/1) .
**the Jews' enemy.** See note on [Esther 3:10](../../../kjv/esther/3/10) .

**gave it unto Mordecai.** Compare [Esther 3:10](../../../kjv/esther/3/10) . Note how God honoured godly Jews in foreign courts: Joseph next to Pharaoh; Moses the heir to the throne of Egypt; Daniel next to Darius in Babylon; Mordecai next to Astyages in Shushan.
**over the house of Hainan.** Wonderful retribution.

**mischief.** Hebrew. *ra'a'.* App-44 . Same word as "evil", [Esther 7:7](../../../kjv/esther/7/7) .
**Haman the Agagite.** See notes on [Esther 2:5](../../../kjv/esther/2/5) with [Esther 3:1](../../../kjv/esther/3/1) .

**If it please the king.** Note the *Alternation* in this verse: The king. "If it please the king. "Esther. "And if I have found favour. "The king. "And . . . before the king. "Esther. "And I be pleasing in his eyes. "
**the Jews.** Some codices, with Aram, and Syriac, read "all the Jews".

**evil.** Same word as "mischief", [Esther 8:3](../../../kjv/esther/8/3) .

**gallows.** See note on [Esther 5:14](../../../kjv/esther/5/14) .

**liketh** = pleaseth. Compare [Esther 3:11](../../../kjv/esther/3/11) .
**may no man reverse.** But Compare [Esther 3:12](../../../kjv/esther/3/12) , and see App-23 .

**commanded unto** = charged. Hebrew. *zavah.* See note on "law", [Esther 3:2](../../../kjv/esther/3/2) .

**posts on horseback** = couriers on horseback. Haman's "posts" were runners on foot ([Esther 3:13](../../../kjv/esther/3/13) , [Esther 3:15](../../../kjv/esther/3/15) ), hut speed was now essential. See [Esther 9:1](../../../kjv/esther/9/1) .

**their life** = themselves. Hebrew. *nephesh.*
**destroy . . . slay . . . perish.** Figure of speech *Synonymia* , for emphasis. See note on [Esther 3:13](../../../kjv/esther/3/13) .
**power** = force. Hebrew. *hayil,* as in [Esther 1:3](../../../kjv/esther/1/3) . Not *shalat =* mastery, as in [Esther 9:1](../../../kjv/esther/9/1) ; or *tokeph =* authority, as in [Esther 9:29](../../../kjv/esther/9/29) .
**little ones.** These were spared, notwithstanding. Compare [Esther 9:6](../../../kjv/esther/9/6) .

**thirteenth.** See note on [Esther 3:12](../../../kjv/esther/3/12) .

**a commandment** = an imperial decree.
**people** = the peoples.

**hastened.** Hebrew. *bahal.* See note on [Esther 6:10](../../../kjv/esther/6/10) .
**commandment** = word. Hebrew. *dabar.* See note on [Esther 1:12](../../../kjv/esther/1/12) .
**decree.** See note on [Esther 2:8](../../../kjv/esther/2/8) .

**light.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), for joy.

**became Jews** = made common cause with the Jews.

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