Esther 8:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

VIII.

(1) Did ... give the house of Haman. — Confiscation of goods necessarily followed on a sentence of death in the East. So, with ourselves, a convicted felon’s property is forfeited to the Crown.

Esther 8:1

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.