Esther 8:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

With a great crown of gold; which the chief of the Persian princes were permitted to wear, but with sufficient distinction from the king's crown. The city of Shushan; not only Jews, but the greatest number of the citizens, who, by the law of nature written upon their hearts, had an abhorrency from bloody counsels and designs, and a complacency in acts of benignity and mercy; or for other reasons, of which See Poole on "Esther 3:15".

Esther 8:15

15 And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of bluee and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.