Esther 3:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Bible Comments

(8) And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them. (9) If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

Now the policy of hell begins to work. Never, surely, was there a deeper scheme of revenge formed. Oh! how well it is for as that the LORD looks on. Reader! what a relief is it to the mind, when at any time iniquity abounds, to remark the tender, watchful love of JESUS over his church. His message to the church of Smyrna is an example of this kind, never to be forgotten. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten day; be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Revelation 2:10. How sweet and consolatory are these words. The devil, like Haman, would have cast them all; but the LORD saith, it should only be some of them. And he would have cast them into hell; but no, saith JESUS, it shall be but in prison. And he would have kept them there forever; but it shall be only ten days. Oh! how sure is the crown, when JESUS hath purchased it.

Esther 3:8-9

8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.