“ And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the kingc delighteth to honour, ”
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...
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, No JFB commentary on this verse.
Mordecai is Honoured An account of how the king being reminded of Mordecai's services, and wishing to reward him, consulted Haman, and how Haman, thinking himself the object of the king's interest...
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...
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...
(6) So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more...
And Haman answered the king ,.... At once, being very prompt to suggest the honours he hoped to have done to himself: for the man whom the king delighteth to honour ; let the following things be d...
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, Ver. 7. And Haman answered the king ] After a short pause, he had his answer ready; but making a bridge of his own shad...
Haman answered, Let the royal apparel , &c. Concluding he himself was the favourite intended, he prescribes the highest instances of honour that could for once be bestowed upon a subject; nay, h...
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...
The Honour Conferred on Mordecai. B. C. 510. 4 And the king said, Who is in the cour...
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CRITICAL NOTES.] Esther 6:6 .] When the king had asked the question, Haman thought within himself, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?] Going beyond me, more than...
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.”...
What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Pride associated with folly 1. In Haman honouring Mordecai we have a remarkable verification of the fable of the dog and the...
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...
The King Asks Haman's Advice
Esther 6:11 ; Esther 6:9