Esther 9:11
in Esther 9On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
KJV
On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
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This verse in Esther 9
Commentary
5 notes on this verseOn that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king. Either by order of the king, that he might know how many enemies the Jews had in the city, and how many of subjects had been slain; or officiously by others, with an intention to irritate the king against the Jews.
This site's exposition
On that day the number
on Esther 9:11-14
The count reaches the king, and his offer to Esther brings a request: that "the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows". The commentators generally read a queen securing her people in a capital still hostile to them. The text records the request without praise or blame.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
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 …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
But their humanity forbade them to do that, though that was designed against them. They slew none but those they found in arms; and therefore they did not take the spoil, but left it to the women and little ones, whom they spared, for their subsistence; otherwise as good slay them as starve them, take away their lives as take away their livelihoods.
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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בַּיּ֣וֹם | baiyom | on the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַה֗וּא | hahu' | <the> that | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| בָּ֣א | ba' | it came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| מִסְפַּ֧ר | mispar | [the] number of | H4557 → | |
| הַֽהֲרוּגִ֛ים | haharugim | those killed | H2026 → | 167 times |
| בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן | beshushan | in Susa | H7800 → | 21 times |
| הַבִּירָ֖ה | habirah | the citadel | H1002 → | 16 times |
| לִפְנֵ֥י | lifnei | <to> before | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ ס | hamelekh | the king | H4428 → | 2525 times |
בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day
baiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַה֗וּא<the> that
hahu'H1931 →1879 times
בָּ֣אit came
ba'H935 →2568 times
מִסְפַּ֧ר[the] number of
misparH4557 →
הַֽהֲרוּגִ֛יםthose killed
haharugimH2026 →167 times
בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ןin Susa
beshushanH7800 →21 times
הַבִּירָ֖הthe citadel
habirahH1002 →16 times
לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before
lifneiH6440 →2123 times
הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ סthe king
hamelekhH4428 →2525 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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About Esther
This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; 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; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Rabanus Maurus, EXPLANATION ON THE BOOK OF ESTHER 12.