Esther 3:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let it be written that they may be destroyed Let a written edict from the king be published for that purpose; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver Whether these were Hebrew, or Babylonish, or Grecian talents, we cannot certainly know. But whichsoever they were, it was a vast sum to be paid by a private person, being probably above three millions sterling, and shows how outrageously he was bent on the destruction of the Jews. But undoubtedly Haman expected to get that sum, and much more, by seizing on all their effects. To the hands of those that have the charge of the business Not of those who should have the charge to kill them, but of those that received the king's money, as appears by the next words, to bring it into the king's treasuries.