6And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. …
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. …
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)The king in humour, and Haman out of humour, meet at Esther’s table. Now, I. The king urged Esther, a third time, to tell him what her request was, for he longed to know, and repeated his promise that it should be granted, Est. 7:2. If the king had now forgotten that Esther had an errand to him, and had not again asked what it was, she could scarcely have known how to renew it herself; but he was…
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