Esther 3:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.a ”

Esther 3:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Esther 3. Haman, to Avenge a Slight Put on Him by Mordecai, Persuades the King to Order a Massacre of the Jews. The Grand Vizier Haman, Heb. calls a descendant of that mysterious people, the Amalek...
Esther 3:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the Jews' enemy. Haman so called four times: Esther 3:10 ; Esther 8:1 ; Esther 9:10 ; Esther 9:24 . No one else so called in Scripture.
Esther 3:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. The king took his ring - In this ring was no doubt included his privy seal, and he...
Esther 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman. There was a...
Esther 3:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Haman's Revengeful Design Against the Jews 1. The Agagite] It has been suggested that the name is an epithet meant to recall the Amalekite Agag hewn in pieces by Samuel ( 1 Samuel 15:33 ), and int...
Esther 3:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Race Prejudice Breeds Hatred Esther 3:1-15 Josephus says that Agagite means a descendant of Agag, the common name for the kings of the Amalekites, Numbers 24:7 . It is probably that something...
Esther 3:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this section we have a picture of the procedure of government in the court of the king. Haman was promoted to supreme authority, and the portrait of the man is naturally and vividly presented to u...
Esther 3:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(10) And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. (11) And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people al...
Esther 3:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. As a token of his affection for him, and a mark of honour to him; with the Pers...
Esther 3:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. Ver. 10. And the king took his ring from his hand ] And thereby gave him power...
Esther 3:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the king took his ring from his hand , &c. Without any examination into the condition of the people, he consented to their destruction. So loath are men that love their pleasure to take any...
Esther 3:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

HAMAN'S ADVANCEMENT AND CONSPIRACY (vv. 1-15) After this (though we are not told how long after) King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, an Agagite, to a position above all the princes (v. 1).Agag had be...
Esther 3:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Haman Obtains Leave to Slay the Jews. B. C. 510. 7 In the first month, that is, the...
Esther 3:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Gave it unto Haman; that he might keep it as a badge of his supreme authority under the king, and that he might use it for the sealing of this decree which now he desired, or of any other, as herea...
Esther 3:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Esther 3:8 .] The Jews were at this time a people scattered abroad. From the fall of Samaria the tribes of Israel had become more and more dispersed among the people in all the...
Esther 3:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Esther 3:1 . Haman the Agagite. All the kings of Amalek received the name of Agag. This man is thought, by most critics, to have been of the seed- royal of that devoted nation, who bitterly hated...
Esther 3:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION HAMAN CASTS LOTS TO OBTAIN A LUCKY DAY FOR HIS ENTERPRISE , AND OBTAINS A DAY IN THE MONTH ADAR , THE LAST MONTH OF THE YEAR ( Esther 3:7 )...
Esther 3:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Plot To Destroy The Jews
Esther 3:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Esther 7:6 ; Esther 8:2 ; Esther 8:8 ; Genesis 41:42

Esther 3:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Esther 3:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Esther 3:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Esther 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Esther 3:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Esther 3:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Esther 3:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Esther 3:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Esther 3:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Esther 3:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Esther 3:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Esther 3:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Esther 3:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Esther 3:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Esther 3:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Esther 3:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Esther 3:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Esther 3:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Esther 3:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge