Esther 9:7
in Esther 9including Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
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ASV
And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
KJV
And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
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This verse in Esther 9
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Most of these names are Persian, and readily traceable to Old Persian roots. Est 9:10 On the spoil laid they not their hand - As they might have done (see the margin reference).
This site's exposition
with the stroke of the sword
on Esther 9:5-10
The defense authorized at 8:11 is executed: five hundred in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman the Agagite slain and named one by one, the enemy's house ended in a list. Then the clause the chapter will repeat three times in varying words: BUT ON THE SPOIL LAID THEY NOT THEIR HAND. Saul lost the kingdom flying upon the spoil of Amalek at 1 Sam 15:19; the generation of Kish's house that refuses the plunder three times over finishes the war he forfeited, and the narrator trusts the reader to hear it.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
Queen Esther's endeavor to successfully crush her enemies and root them out reveals the eagerness and zeal of a true queen, namely, of the holy church that constantly fights against her enemies and strives to defeat them completely and subdue them. And it is her …
What can it mean when we read that the Jews pursued their enemies and killed five hundred men in Shushan, except for the ten sons of Haman whom they nailed to gibbets? Merely that to the people of God, it is not only all the …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha, the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies--The effect of the two antagonistic decrees was, in the meantime, to raise a fierce and bloody war between the Jews and their enemies throughout the Persian empire; but through the dread of Esther and Mordecai, the provincial governors universally favored their cause, so that their enemies fell in great numbers.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֵ֧ת׀ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| פַּרְשַׁנְדָּ֛תָא | parshandata' | Parshandatha | H6577 → | |
| וְאֵ֥ת׀ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| דַּֽלְפ֖וֹן | dalfon | Dalphon | H1813 → | |
| וְאֵ֥ת׀ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אַסְפָּֽתָא׃ | ʾaspata' | Aspatha | H630 → |
וְאֵ֧ת׀and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
פַּרְשַׁנְדָּ֛תָאParshandatha
parshandata'H6577 →
וְאֵ֥ת׀and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
דַּֽלְפ֖וֹןDalphon
dalfonH1813 →
וְאֵ֥ת׀and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
אַסְפָּֽתָא׃Aspatha
ʾaspata'H630 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Esther
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther; Rabanus Maurus, EXPLANATION ON THE BOOK OF ESTHER 12; Rabanus Maurus, Commentary on Esther and W. F. Adeney, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Expositor's Bible).