6For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
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For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. …
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 be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them,(though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-14)Haman, the chief enemy of the Jews, was hanged, Mordecai and Esther, their chief friends, were sufficiently protected; but many others there were in the king’s dominions that hated the Jews and desired their ruin, and to their rage and malice all the rest of that people lay exposed; for the edict against them was still in force, and, in pursuance of it, their enemies would on the day appointed fal…
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