Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Esther 9:14
And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
5-16. Thus the Jews smote all theirenemiesThe effect of the two antagonistic decrees was, in themeantime, to raise a fierce and bloody war between the Jews and theirenemies throughout the Persian empire; but through the dread ofEsther and Mordecai, the provincial governors universally favoredtheir cause, so that their enemies fell in great numbers.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan,…. That the Jews might have leave to seek out and slay the rest of their enemies in Shushan, on the fourteenth day, in like manner as they had on the thirteenth:
and they hanged Haman’s ten sons; on the same gallows very probably their father was hanged; the Targum gives us the distance between each person hanged thereon.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The king commanded it so to be done. “Then was a decree given at Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.” The decree given in Susa does not refer to the hanging of the sons of Haman, but to the permission given to the Jews to fight against their enemies on the morrow also. This is required not only by a comparison of Est 8:13, but also by the connection of the present verse; for in consequence of this decree the Jews assembled on the 14th Adar (comp. , then they assembled themselves, Est 9:15), while the hanging of the sons of Haman, on the contrary, is related in an accessory clause by a simple perfect, .
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
Est 9:14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
Ver. 14. And the king commanded it so to be done ] He feared not that thereupon the people would rise and call him tyrant to his teeth; as when Bajazet II had cast Achmetes Bassa into prison, the janizaries in an uproar insolently answered the Great Turk, that they would by and by teach him, as a drunkard, a beast, and a rascal, to use his great place and calling with more sobriety and discretion (Turk. Hist. fol. 444). Ahasuerus well enough knew his own power, and was therefore the more bold in disposing, after this manner, of the lives of his subjects, who were ready to say to him, as once Tiberius did to Justinus, Si tu volueris, ego sum; si tu non vis, ego non sum; If you are willing, I am, if you are not willing, I am not. I am wholly yours to command.
And the decree was given at Shushan
And they hanged Haman’s ten sons] For greater ignominy and terror to others. Thus God commanded the heads of the twelve princes of Israel to be hanged up against the sun, Num 25:4 . Joshua hanged the king of Ai upon a gallows until the evening, Jos 8:29 , and after that the five kings of the Amorites, Jos 10:27 God hanged up Absalom with his own bare hand.
Absalon marte furens pensilis arbore obit.
Absalon died in a tree fighting punished for his rage.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
commanded. Hebrew. ‘amar. See note on Est 1:10.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Reciprocal: Num 24:20 – his latter end 2Sa 21:6 – hang Ezr 7:13 – I make Est 9:25 – when Esther came Pro 12:7 – wicked Ecc 6:3 – and also Gal 3:13 – for