Esther 3:15
By “Shushan the palace (or the fort),” is probably meant the whole of the upper town, which occupied an area of more than 100 acres, and contained...
And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed (d) five hundred men. (d) Besides the three hundred that they slew the second day, ( Esther 9:...
The Jews Successful against their Enemies. Adar 13th, the dreadful day, comes at last. What were the Jews to do? There were many partisans of Haman...
destroyed, &c. Note that they took no advantage of the permission given in Esther 8:11 .
And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. And in Shushan - It is strange that in this city, where the king's mind must...
And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. No JFB commentary on these verses.
The Jews Slay their Enemies. Institution of Purim 3. All the rulers, etc.] The great massacre described in href='190 9:16'>Est 9:16 is thus rep...
The palace. — Doubtless the whole royal city, rather than the palace strictly so called. It is obvious that even Xerxes would hardly have allowed b...
Deliverance by the Sword Esther 9:1-32 When the fateful day arrived, the Jews throughout the empire stood on the defense. As it appears from E...
In this final section of the Book we have an account, first, of the arrival of the fateful day and all that happened thereon. It was a day when the c...
(1) В¶ Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to...
And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. Not in the royal palace, where it cannot be thought the Jews had so many en...
And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. Ver. 6. And in Shushan the palace ] One would wonder that any here should...
In Shushan the palace That is, in the city where the palace was; it not being probable, either that they would make such a slaughter in the palace...
THE JEWS VICTORIOUS (vv. 1-17) On the day prescribed in both decrees, when the enemies of the Jews expected to destroy all the Jews in the Persi...
The Jews Avenged. B. C. 509. 1 Now in...
In Shushan the palace, i.e. in the city so called, as was noted before, Esther 1:2 ; it not being probable either that they would make such a sl...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Esther 9:6 . In Shushan the palace the Jews slew … five hundred] Shushan the palace is here evidently to be taken in the sense...
Esther 9:1 . The enemies of the Jews. The Chaldean paraphrase says that no nation appeared in arms against the Jews but Amalek; and these were inf...
EXPOSITION RESULT OF THE SECOND EDICT ' THE JEWS RESIST THEIR ENEMIES , AND EFFECT A GREAT SLAUGHTER OF THEM , BUT...
The Enemies Slain
And in Shushan, the palace, the section of the capital where the royal palace was situated, the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
Shushan — In the city so called. Slew — Whom they knew to be such as would watch all opportunities to destroy them; which also they might possibly...
6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.