Esther 6:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. ”

Esther 6:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Esther 6. Haman is Compelled to Do Public Honour to Mordeeai. Now comes a dramatic scene. Providence is at work, and the clouds are opening. In the night between Esther's two drinking-feasts, the k...
Esther 6:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

On that night. The time for Divine action had come. See App-23. could not the king sleep. God uses small things to accomplish His purposes. See note on Judges 3:21 . We know not what He used he...
Esther 6:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. On that night could not the king sleep - The Targum says t...
Esther 6:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The book of records of the chronicles— In these diaries, which we now call journals, wherein was set down what passed every day, the manner of the Persians was, to record the names of those who...
Esther 6:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. The king ... commanded to bring the book of record...
Esther 6:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The book.. chronicles ] in which the chief occurrences of the king's reign, including any signal services done by his subjects (href='190 2:23'>Est 2:23), were recorded.
Esther 6:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

VI. (1) Could not the king sleep. — Literally, the king's sleep fled away. Here, in the most striking way in the whole book, the workings of God’s providence on behalf of His people are shown....
Esther 6:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Gratitude for a Forgotten Service Esther 6:1-14 There was a divine providence in this royal sleeplessness. On the very next night Haman would be hanging on the gallows, and it would be too late...
Esther 6:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the economy of God vast issues follow apparently trivial things. A sleepless night is in itself transient and almost trivial. Yet it has often been a time of revelation and surprise, affecting the...
Esther 6:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS The black cloud with which the church was covered, in the preceding chapter, begins in this to brighten up. Ahasuerus, unable to sleep, causeth the records of his kingdom to be read to him....
Esther 6:1 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

WHAT CAME OF A SLEEPLESS NIGHT ‘On that night could not the king sleep.’ Esther 6:1 I. It is hardly affirming too much to say that on the sleepless night of the Persian king was made to dep...
Esther 6:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

On that night could not the king sleep ,.... The night after he had been at Esther's banquet, which it might be thought would rather have caused sleep; and therefore Jarchi calls it a miracle; and n...
Esther 6:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. Ver. 1. On that night ] That very night before Mordecai...
Esther 6:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

On that night could not the king sleep How vain are all the contrivances of foolish man against the wise and omnipotent God, who hath the hearts and hands of kings and all men perfectly at his disp...
Esther 6:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The same night that Haman had had a gallows made on which to hang Mordecai, the Lord intervened in a most amazing way, causing the king to be unable to sleep and moving him to have the book of record...
Esther 6:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Record of Mordecai's Loyalty. B. C. 510. 1 On that night could not the king sleep, a...
Esther 6:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

ESTHER CHAPTER 6 Ahasuerus's sleep being taken from him, he commands the chronicles to be read, Esther 6:1 . And reading of Mordecai's discovery of the plot against his life, asks what honour ha...
Esther 6:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Esther 6:1 . On … sleep] Heb. the king’s sleep fled away, an unusual thing. “ That night] which succeeded the events of the last chapter, settled with apparently a most ominous...
Esther 6:1 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Esther 6:1 I. We have here a wonderful lesson in the illimitable plan of Providence. How events ripen to the close. How crime matures itself to its doom. The pathway of God's providence is a fixed...
Esther 6:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Esther 6:1 . That night could not the king sleep, the reveries of his mind being excited by guardian angels. See on Psalms 34:7 . The LXX read, “But the Lord moved the king that night by dreams.”...
Esther 6:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

On that night could not the king sleep. The power of a sleepless night A trifling circumstance to record. Ah! how important are little things : the unnoticed things are the life-blood of the w...
Esther 6:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION AHASUERUS , BEING WAKEFUL DURING THE NIGHT , HAS THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES READ TO HIM , AND FINDS THAT MORDECAI HAS RECEIVED NO REWARD . H...
Esther 6:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

On that night could not the king sleep, literally, "fled away the sleep of the king," and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, the annals of the kingdom, in which all events...
Esther 6:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 23:26 ; 1 Samuel 23:27 ; Daniel 2:1 ; Daniel 6:18 ; Esther 2:23 ; Esther 5:8 ; Genesis 22:14 ; Isaiah 41:17 ; Malachi 3:16 ; Romans 11:33
Esther 6:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sleep — How vain are all the contrivances of foolish man against the wise and omnipotent God, who hath the hearts and hands of kings and all men perfectly at his disposal, and can by such trivial a...

Esther 6:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Esther 6:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Esther 6:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Esther 6:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Esther 6:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Esther 6:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Esther 6:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Esther 6:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Esther 6:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Esther 6:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Esther 6:1 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Esther 6:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Esther 6:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Esther 6:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Esther 6:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Esther 6:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Esther 6:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Esther 6:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Esther 6:1 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Esther 6:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Esther 6:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Esther 6:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Esther 6:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Esther 6:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Esther 6:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes