Esther 9

Esther 9:3

OFfices] some would restraine this to Treasurers and Chamberlaines.

Esther 9:10

Laid they not] though the King had granted them leave to doe it, Esther 8:11. yet they abstained from it, to shew that this execution was done by them, onely for the safeguard of their lives, and not for any covetousnesse.

Esther 9:13

To morrow also] because there remained yet in Shushan many of the Iewes deadly and open nemies, being of Hanians servants and partakers; who being escaped the prefixed day, would not faile a new to set on foot their cruell designe upon the first opportunitie: and therefore Ester desires to have them prevented, [be hanged] that their bodies may be as a spectacle in signe of execration, and for a publike example.

Esther 9:19

Of sending] see concerning this ludable custome, on great feast dayes, Neh. 8. 10. 11.

Esther 9:21

The fourteenth] those of the countrey the fourteenth, and those in the citis the fifteenh; yet according to the Iewes observation to this day, the fourteenth is a greater festivall then the fifteenth.

Esther 9:23

Vndertook] they voluntarily submitted and yeelded to obey this command though it were not a command that had any power to force them to it, through feare of punishment, seeing it came not from any supreme power.

Esther 9:26

Of this letter] the Italian, of those letters, namely of Mordacai, ver. 20 [and of that] they did dispose themselves to the observation of this, not onely by reason ofMordacai his authority, but also through their own judgements, acknowledging the danger and the greatnesse of the deliverace.

Esther 9:29

With all authority] the Italian, with all manner of instance, the Hebrew,strength: Others, he writ the second time all that belonged to the ratisication and firmenesse of this statute.

Esther 9:31

Fastings] whereof not withstanding there is no mention made in this book: but one may gather by the Iewes practice, that in the thirteenth day of the moneth, which day the slaughter of the people should have been, they did ordinarily fast in remembrance of the danger.

Esther 9:32

In the book] of the statutes and observations of the Iewes, besides MosesLawes.