isles. coasts.
A tribute - Perhaps an allusion to some fresh arrangement of the tribute likely to have followed on the return of Xerxes from Greece. Upon the...
Esther 10. Conclusion of the Book. The final chapter is a short panegyric on Mordecai: he is praised as wise and kind, a man of high importance in...
And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea. Laid a tribute upon the land - On the one hundred and twenty-se...
Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, &c.— 1:e. He laid a tax upon every part of his dominions, both on the continent and in the islands over...
And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea. Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isle...
The Greatness of Mordecai 1. The isles of the sea] or, 'coast lands,' i.e. the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. The description of the ki...
X. (1) Laid a tribute. — The disastrous expedition to Greece must have taxed the resources of the empire to the utmost, and fresh tribute would...
the Feast of Purim Esther 9:20-32 ; Esther 10:1-3 The Feast of Purim-so called from Esther 3:7 -was held on the 14th and 15th of Adar, our F...
Here we have the last picture of this man Mordecai. It is a singularly fine one. Whatever may have been questionable in some of the methods he adopte...
CONTENTS This very short chapter, being unconnected with the history of the church, seems to have been inserted here only to record the advancement...
(1) В¶ And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea. (2) And all the acts of his power and of his might, and th...
And the King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and upon the isles of the sea. Which include all his dominions, both on the continent, and on th...
And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and [upon] the isles of the sea. Ver. 1. And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute, &c. ] An...
King Ahasuerus, laid a tribute upon the land That is, he laid a tax upon every part of his dominions, both on the continent, and on the islands ove...
THE GREATNESS OF AHASUERUS AND MORDECAI This remarkable book closes with the announcement of the greatness of the Persian Empire as ruled over by...
The Glory of Mordecai. B. C. 495. 1 An...
ESTHER CHAPTER 10 Ahasuerus's greatness and Mordecai's advancement. i.e. Upon all his dominions, whether in thee main continent, or in the islands....
CRITICAL NOTES.] And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea] Tribute—a levy, tribute-service—means a tax le...
isles That is, coasts.
Esther 10:1 . Laid a tribute upon the land. This was to prepare for his great expedition, as some suppose, against Europe. But the heathen histori...
And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land. A good government A good government-- I. Has a wise system of taxation. II. Makes it...
EXPOSITION CONCLUSION .— THE GREATNESS OF AHASUERUS , AND OF MORDECAI UNDER HIM ( Esther 10:1-17 .). The Book of Esther might h...
And the King Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, a special tax exacted from all parts of his great empire, and upon the isles of the sea, as fa...
The Extent of Mordecai's Power.
Daniel 11:18 ; Esther 1:1 ; Esther 8:9 ; Genesis 10:5 ; Isaiah 24:15 ; Luke 2:1 ; Psalms 72:10
1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.