--- title: "Esther 8 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Esther 8 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews’ enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/esther/8" --- [ Read](/kjv/esther/8)[ Commentary](/study/esther/8)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/esther/8) Audio 1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews’ enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he *was* unto her. 2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. 3 ¶ And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.* 4 Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king, 5 And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing *seem* right before the king, and I *be* pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which *are* in all the king’s provinces:** 6 For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?* 7 ¶ Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews. 8 Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal *it* with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse. 9 Then were the king’s scribes called at that time in the third month, that *is*, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth *day* thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which *are* from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language. 10 And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed *it* with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, *and* riders on mules, camels, *and* young dromedaries: 11 Wherein the king granted the Jews which *were* in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, *both* little ones and women, and *to take* the spoil of them for a prey, 12 Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, *namely*, upon the thirteenth *day* of the twelfth month, which *is* the month Adar. 13 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province *was* published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.* 14 *So* the posts that rode upon mules *and* camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace. 15 ¶ And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.* 16 The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour. 17 And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them. [Esther 7](/study/esther/7) [Esther 9](/study/esther/9) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Est 8:1](/kjv/est/8/1) On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews’ enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he [was] unto her. Ver. 1. **On that day** ] This was a festival and a good day, as [Esther 8:17](/kjv/esther/8/17) , *albo lapillo notandus,* for the many signal mercies that thereon came in together, viz. Esther’s petition granted, Haman hanged, Mordecai advanced, the proscribed Jews relieved, &c. As crosses seldom come single ( *Catenata piorum crux* ), but trooping together commonly, and treading upon the heels of one another, like Job’s messengers, [James 1:2](/kjv/james/1/2) ; so do blessings from God: there is oft a continued series, a concatenation; there comes a troop, as she said, when her son Gad came, [Genesis 30:11](/kjv/genesis/30/11) . God is rich in mercy, [Romans 10:12](/kjv/romans/10/12) . Neither are we at any time constrained in him, but in our own heart. **** **Did the king Ahasuerus give** ] For into the king’s hands was all Haman’s estate forfeited. The Turks have a proverb, He that is greatest in office is but a statue of glass. Few of their viziers die in their beds, but are cut off at a short warning, and all they have is confiscated. **** **The house of Haman** ] *i.e.* His goods and chattels, all that glory of his riches, whereof he had so greatly boasted, [Esther 5:11](/kjv/esther/5/11) , and which he had been so many years heaping and hoarding. *Nem0 confidat nimium secundis.* The Jews’ enemy] It is ill being the Church’s enemy: she hath a champion that will stick to her, [Isaiah 37:23](/kjv/isaiah/37/23) , so that her enemies shall all be found liars unto her, [Deuteronomy 33:29](/kjv/deuteronomy/33/29) . Let them read their destiny in that cup of trembling, burdensome stone, hearth of fire, mentioned [Zechariah 12:2-3](/kjv/zechariah/12/2-3) ; [Zechariah 12:6](/kjv/zechariah/12/6) , and hear the Church’s motto, *Nemo me impune lacessit;* no one provokes me with impunity, there cannot be a greater folly than to be her enemy, for she conquereth even when conquered; as Christ overcame as well by patience as by power, *Victa tamen vinces, eversaque Troia resurges.* **** **Unto Esther the queen** ] So making good that of Solomon, [Proverbs 13:22](/kjv/proverbs/13/22) . The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. See [Job 27:16-17](/kjv/job/27/16-17) . Thus was that of the Canaanites for the Israelites, of Nabal for David, of the former tyrants and persecutors, for Constantine the Great, to whom the good God (saith Austin, De C. D. 1. v. c. 25) gave so much worldly wealth, *quantas optare nullus auderet,* as no man could ever have wished. That Haman was exceeding rich, appeareth by that large offer of his, [Esther 3:9](/kjv/esther/3/9) ; who can tell but that he might have as much as Pope John XXII, in whose coffers were found by his heirs two hundred and fifty tons of gold, as Petrarch reporteth. **** **And Mordecai came before the king** ] As his continual attendant and special favourite, his cousin and counsellor; perhaps one of the seven mentioned [Esther 1:14](/kjv/esther/1/14) . He that hitherto sat as a servant before the king’s gate is now grown so great a man all upon the sudden. It is the Lord that thus raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory, [1 Samuel 2:8](/kjv/1-samuel/2/8) . Promotion cometh neither from the east, west, nor south (where the warm sunshine is), but God is the judge, he putteth down one, and setteth up another, [Psalms 75:6-7](/kjv/psalms/75/6-7) . He advanced Jovinian and Valentinian, men of low birth, to the empire. In the year of grace 518 Justinus was first a swine herd, then a herdsman, then a carpenter, then a soldier, and lastly an emperor. Cromwell, a smith’s son of Putney or thereabouts (whose mother married after to a sheerman), what a great man grew he here to be in King Henry VIII’s time? Virtue exalteth the meanest, when villany tumbleth down the noblest. **** **For Esther had told what he was unto her** ] viz. Her first cousin and foster father, her friend that was as her own soul, as Moses phraseth it, [Deuteronomy 13:6](/kjv/deuteronomy/13/6) , and preferreth him before brother, son, daughter, wife. 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