Esther 3:9 BSB — MannaFest

Esther 3:9

If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”

BSB

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ASV

If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.

KJV

If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Ten thousand talents of silver - According to Herodotus, the regular revenue of the Persian king consisted of 14,560 silver talents; so that, if the same talent is intended, Haman’s offer would have exceeded two-thirds of one year’s revenue (or two and one-half million British pound sterling). Another Persian subject, Pythius, once offered to present Xerxes with four millions of gold darics, or about four and one-half pounds.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This, he thought, would be a powerful inducement to the king to consent, and would obviate the strongest objection against him, which was that the government must needs sustain loss in its revenues by the destruction of so many of its subjects; so great a sum, he hoped, would be equivalent for that.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
עַל־	'al-	[is] on	H5921 →
הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
ט֔וֹב	Tov	good	H2896 →
יִכָּתֵ֖ב	yi.ka.Tev	let it be written	H3789 →
לְאַבְּדָ֑ם	le.'a.be.Dam	to destroy them	H6 →
וַעֲשֶׂ֨רֶת	va.'a.Se.ret	and ten	H6235 →
אֲלָפִ֜ים	'a.la.Fim	thousand<s>	H505 →
כִּכַּר־	ki.kar-	talent[s] of	H3603 →
כֶּ֗סֶף	Ke.sef	silver	H3701 →
אֶשְׁקוֹל֙	'esh.kOl	I will weigh out	H8254 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
יְדֵי֙	ye.Dei	[the] hands of	H3027 →
עֹשֵׂ֣י	'o.Sei	[the] doers of	H6213 →
הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה	ha.me.la.Khah	the work	H4399 →
לְהָבִ֖יא	le.ha.Vi'	to bring [it]	H935 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
גִּנְזֵ֥י	gin.Zei	[the] treasuries of	H1595 →
הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 23:16
Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
leads to
- Jeremiah 32:9
  So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.
- Zechariah 11:12
  Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.
- Matthew 7:12
  In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:6
  and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.
- Job 28:15
  It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.
Through
Matthew 18:24
As he began the settlements, a debtor was brought to him owing ten thousand talents.
leads to
- Psalms 130:3–4
  If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- Psalms 38:4
  For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
- Luke 13:4
  Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

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06About Esther

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Esther