Esther 6:1

1 Samuel 23:26; 1 Samuel 23:27; Daniel 2:1; Daniel 6:18; Esther 2:23; Esther 5:8; Genesis 22:14; Isaiah 41:17; Malachi 3:16; Romans 11:33

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Esther 6. Haman is Compelled to Do Public Honour to Mordeeai. Now comes a dramatic scene. Providence is at work, and the clouds are opening. In the...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

On that night. The time for Divine action had come. See App-23. could not the king sleep. God uses small things to accomplish His purposes. See...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. On that...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The book of records of the chronicles— In these diaries, which we now call journals, wherein was set down what passed every day, the manner of...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The book.. chronicles ] in which the chief occurrences of the king's reign, including any signal services done by his subjects (href='190 2:23'>E...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Mordecai is Honoured An account of how the king being reminded of Mordecai's services, and wishing to reward him, consulted Haman, and how Haman,...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

VI. (1) Could not the king sleep. — Literally, the king's sleep fled away. Here, in the most striking way in the whole book, the workings of G...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Gratitude for a Forgotten Service Esther 6:1-14 There was a divine providence in this royal sleeplessness. On the very next night Haman would b...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the economy of God vast issues follow apparently trivial things. A sleepless night is in itself transient and almost trivial. Yet it has often bee...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS The black cloud with which the church was covered, in the preceding chapter, begins in this to brighten up. Ahasuerus, unable to sleep, cau...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

WHAT CAME OF A SLEEPLESS NIGHT ‘On that night could not the king sleep.’ Esther 6:1 I. It is hardly affirming too much to say that on the s...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

On that night could not the king sleep ,.... The night after he had been at Esther's banquet, which it might be thought would rather have caused sle...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. Ver. 1...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

On that night could not the king sleep How vain are all the contrivances of foolish man against the wise and omnipotent God, who hath the hearts an...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The same night that Haman had had a gallows made on which to hang Mordecai, the Lord intervened in a most amazing way, causing the king to be unable...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Record of Mordecai's Loyalty. B. C. 510....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

ESTHER CHAPTER 6 Ahasuerus's sleep being taken from him, he commands the chronicles to be read, Esther 6:1 . And reading of Mordecai's discovery...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Esther 6:1 . On … sleep] Heb. the king’s sleep fled away, an unusual thing. “ That night] which succeeded the events of the la...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Esther 6:1 I. We have here a wonderful lesson in the illimitable plan of Providence. How events ripen to the close. How crime matures itself to it...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Esther 6:1 . That night could not the king sleep, the reveries of his mind being excited by guardian angels. See on Psalms 34:7 . The LXX read, “...
The Biblical Illustrator

On that night could not the king sleep. The power of a sleepless night A trifling circumstance to record. Ah! how important are little things :...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION AHASUERUS , BEING WAKEFUL DURING THE NIGHT , HAS THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES READ TO HIM , AND FINDS T...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

On that night could not the king sleep, literally, "fled away the sleep of the king," and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicle...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The King Asks Haman's Advice
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sleep — How vain are all the contrivances of foolish man against the wise and omnipotent God, who hath the hearts and hands of kings and all men pe...

¹ On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

Related Commentaries of Esther 6:1

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Esther 6:1