Esther 3:8 - Forerunner Commentary

Esther 3:8

6 But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman ^asought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai.

7 In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, ^athey cast Pur (that is, the lot), before Haman to determine the day and the² month, until it fell on the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; ^atheir laws are different from all other people’s, and they do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain.

9 If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

10 So the king ^atook ^bhis signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the ^cenemy of the Jews.

11 And the king said to Haman, “The money and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you.”

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Having the ear of the king, he began craftily describing Mordecai's people as those who do not keep the law of the king. The king obviously trusted Haman's judgment and the decree was written, signed into law, sealed by the king's signet ring—and Haman thought he had won. We find in verse 15 that Haman sat down with the king, celebrating his victory no doubt, and patting himself on the back with coming up with such a brilliant plan. Whispering in the king's ear, if you will, Haman had successfully manipulated the king. And now he sat down with the king to celebrate what he thought was a wonderful plan to eliminate not only this pesky Jew, Mordecai, who was a thorn in his side, but he was going to get rid of the Jews once and for all.

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