Esther 3:11

And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The silver is given to thee - Some understand this to mean that Xerxes refused the silver which Haman had offered to him; but the passage is bett...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Esther 3. Haman, to Avenge a Slight Put on Him by Mordecai, Persuades the King to Order a Massacre of the Jews. The Grand Vizier Haman, Heb. calls...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the People also. This was the aim of the great enemy, who was using Haman as he had tried to use Pharaoh in Egypt. See App-23.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Haman's Revengeful Design Against the Jews 1. The Agagite] It has been suggested that the name is an epithet meant to recall the Amalekite Agag he...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The silver ] The money which Haman had pledged himself to pay into the treasury the king confers upon him for his services in pointing out a serious...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the king said ... — With indifference which seems incredible, but which is quite in accordance with what we otherwise know of Xerxes, the king...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Race Prejudice Breeds Hatred Esther 3:1-15 Josephus says that Agagite means a descendant of Agag, the common name for the kings of the Amalekit...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this section we have a picture of the procedure of government in the court of the king. Haman was promoted to supreme authority, and the portrait...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(10) And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. (11) And the king said unto...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the king said unto Haman, the silver is given unto thee ,.... The 10,000 talents of silver Haman proposed to pay into the treasury were returned...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the king said unto Haman, The silver [is] given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee. Ver. 11. And the king...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The silver is given to thee Keep it for thy own use, I do not desire it. I accept thy offer for the deed. So that he gave him power to draw up what...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

HAMAN'S ADVANCEMENT AND CONSPIRACY (vv. 1-15) After this (though we are not told how long after) King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, an Agagite, to a...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Haman Obtains Leave to Slay the Jews. B. C. 510....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The silver is given to thee; keep it to thy own use, I do not desire it, I accept thy offer for the deed.
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Esther 3:8 .] The Jews were at this time a people scattered abroad. From the fall of Samaria the tribes of Israel had become mo...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Esther 3:1 . Haman the Agagite. All the kings of Amalek received the name of Agag. This man is thought, by most critics, to have been of the seed-...
The Biblical Illustrator

To do with them as it seemeth good to thee. The danger of an easy temper Ahasuerus appears to have been a man of an easy temper, and ready to c...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION HAMAN CASTS LOTS TO OBTAIN A LUCKY DAY FOR HIS ENTERPRISE , AND OBTAINS A DAY IN THE MONTH ADAR , TH...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Plot To Destroy The Jews
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee. He was given a free hand to d...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 26:14 ; Jeremiah 40:4 ; Luke 23:25 ; Psalms 73:7
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The silver — Keep it to thy own use; I accept the offer for the deed.

¹¹ And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.

Related Commentaries of Esther 3:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Esther 3:11