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So the king and Haman went in to drink with the queen. See also: Esther 5:8 Esther 3:15The king said to Esther at the banquet on the second day, “What is it, queen Esther? What is your request? What is your petition? It shall be done for you, up to half of my kingdom.” See also: John 16:24 Esther 5:3 Esther 9:12She answered and said, “If I have found favor in the sight of the king, let my life be granted as my petition, and my people as my request. See also: Jeremiah 38:26 Job 2:4 Esther 7:7For both I and my people are sold for destruction, pillage, and genocide. If both we and our children were sold for male and female slaves, I would not have bothered you, for this isn’t worthy of the king’s palace.” See also: Esther 3:9 Esther 3:13 Deuteronomy 28:68The king said, “Who has dared to do this thing?” See also: Genesis 27:33 Job 9:24 Acts 5:3Esther said, “The enemy is Haman, this wicked man!” Then Haman was terrified in the presence of the king and the queen. See also: Job 18:5-12 2 Thessalonians 2:8 1 Corinthians 5:13The king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden. Haman began to beg the queen for mercy, for he saw that he was in serious trouble. See also: Revelation 3:9 Esther 1:12 1 Samuel 20:9The king returned from the garden; and Haman had fallen upon the couch, begging the queen for mercy. The king said, “Will you even assault my wife in my house?” And when Haman heard it, he changed countenance. See also: Esther 1:6 Esther 6:12 Isaiah 22:17And Bugathan, one of the chamberlains, said to the king, “Behold, Haman has also prepared a gallows for Mordecai, who spoke concerning the king, and a fifty cubit high gallows has been set up on Haman’s property.” The king said, “Let him be hanged on it!” See also: Psalms 7:15-16 Proverbs 11:5-6 Esther 1:10So Haman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was abated. See also: Psalms 7:16 Daniel 6:24 Judges 15:7

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)8 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Esther 7:1

Ver. 1. Drink. Wine was only used at great feasts. Eccli. xxxi. 17. Water was served up first, from the river Choaspes only. The king and his eldest son were allowed to drink of "the golden waters," of which they alone had 70 fountains.

Athen. xii. 2. --- Their wine was brought from Chelbon, near Damascus. Id. i. 22.

Ezec. xxvii. 18. C.

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Esther 7:3

Ver. 3. People. She was more concerned for these than for half of the kingdom.

Hence all fasted and prayed, and Esther obtained their deliverance. W.

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Esther 7:4

Ver. 4. Perish. Three terms of the same import express the greatness of the misery. H. --- King.

Whose revenue will be greatly impaired, (C.) and character injured, for having given such power to a monster. H. --- The kings of Persia had taken many precautions not to be thus deluded, having appointed officers, who were styled "the eyes and ears" of the king, purposely to obtain all necessary information. But these eyes were often darkened; these ears were often deaf, (C.) and unwilling to act with fidelity; (H.) though their diligence in make secret transactions known, caused the people to look upon their kings as gods. Apul.

Mund. Cyrop. viii. C.

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Esther 7:5

Ver. 5. What. Heb. "where, who durst entertain this design?" H.

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Esther 7:6

Ver. 6. Astonished. Horror of a guilty conscience is the first punishment. S.

Chrys. W.

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Esther 7:7

Ver. 7. Set. Heb. "of the palace," (H.) belonging to the queen. C.

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Esther 7:8

Ver. 8. My own. Heb. "will he force...in the house?" H. --- Those who know with what jealousy the Persians treated their wives, so at to punish with death those who crossed the road before the queens, (Plut. Artax.) or touched them, will not wonder at the indignation of Assuerus, (C.) though his suspicions were groundless. H. --- Aman wished to incline the queen to shew clemency, (M.) and intercede for him. He threw himself as a suppliant at her feet, as she lay on the bed at table. H. --- Face. His crime was notorious; no trial was requisite, and the kings could treat their subjects as slaves. It was customary to cover the faces of those who were led to execution. Philotas was thus conducted into the presence of Alexander. Curt. vi.

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Esther 7:9

Ver. 9. Harbona. Cr. "Bougathan." H. --- He had been to call Aman to the feast.

Jos. --- Little dependance is to be had on false friendship, when a man is disgraced. W. --- Upon it. His body was perhaps afterwards exposed in the street. C. xvi. 18. It is not clear that he was nailed to the cross, though this custom prevailed in the country. 1 Esd. vi. 11. Alexander crucified many satraps. Curt. ix. --- The old Vulg. observes that the wife and ten children of Aman suffered with him. C. ix. 6. C.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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