Esther 9:1

Louis Segond

Au douzième mois, qui est le mois d'Adar, le treizième jour du mois, jour où devaient s'exécuter l'ordre et l'édit du roi, et où les ennemis des Juifs avaient espéré dominer sur eux, ce fut le contraire qui arriva, et les Juifs dominèrent sur leurs ennemis.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Au douzième mois, qui est le mois d'Adar, au treizième jour du mois, auquel la parole du roi et son édit devaient être exécutés, au jour où les ennemis des Juifs espéraient en être les maîtres, le contraire arriva, et les Juifs furent maîtres de ceux qui les haïssaient.

Darby's French Translation
Et au douzième mois, qui est le mois d'Adar, le treizième jour du mois, où la parole du roi et son édit allaient être exécutés, au jour où les ennemis des Juifs espéraient se rendre maîtres d'eux (mais la chose fut changée en ce que ces mêmes Juifs se rendirent maîtres de ceux qui les haïssaient),

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Le douzième mois donc, qui est le mois d'Adar, le treizième jour de ce mois, auquel la parole du Roi et son ordonnance devait être exécutée, au jour que les ennemis des Juifs espéraient en être les maîtres, au lieu que le contraire devait arriver, [savoir] que les Juifs seraient maîtres de ceux qui les haïssaient;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3552, bc 452

in the twelfth: Esther 3:7, Esther 3:13, Esther 8:12

hoped: Acts 12:11

though it was turned: Deuteronomy 32:36, 2 Samuel 22:41, Psalms 30:11, Isaiah 14:1, Isaiah 14:2, Isaiah 60:14-16, Revelation 11:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:28 - the twelve Ezra 6:15 - Adar Esther 9:17 - of the same Esther 9:18 - on the thirteenth Proverbs 11:11 - it Philippians 1:12 - rather

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now in the twelfth month, that is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same,.... Of which see Esther 3:13,

when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution; even both his commandments and decrees, the one empowering the enemies of the Jews on that day to destroy them, and the other empowering the Jews to act both defensively and offensively against their enemies:

in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them; by virtue of the first decree of the king; and notwithstanding the second, they might hope to have it because of their superior numbers:

though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them; it proved the reverse, partly through the second decree in favour of the Jews, and partly through the fear of them that fell upon their enemies; because the court was on their side, and the officers everywhere, and especially their God filled them with courage, and their enemies with terror.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Drew near - Or, “arrived,” or “reached the time” specified Esther 3:13; Esther 8:12.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER IX

On the thirteenth of the month Adar the Jews destroy their

enemies, and the governors of the provinces assist them, 1-5.

They slay five hundred in Shushan, and kill the ten sons of

Haman, but take no spoil, 6-10.

The king is informed of the slaughter in Shushan, 11.

He desires to know what Esther requests farther; who begs that

the Jews may be permitted to act on the following day as they

had done on the preceding, and that Haman's sons may be hanged

upon the gallows; which is granted; and they slay three hundred

more in Shushan, and in the other provinces seventy-five

thousand, 12-16.

A recapitulation of what was done; and of the appointment of the

feast of Purim to be observed through all their generations

every year, 17-28.

Esther writes to confirm this appointment, 29-32.

NOTES ON CHAP. IX

Verse Esther 9:1. Now in the twelfth month — What a number of providences, and none of them apparently of an extraordinary nature, concurred to preserve a people so signally, and to all human appearance so inevitably, doomed to destruction! None are ever too low for God to lift up, or too high for God to cast down. Must not these heathens have observed that the uncontrollable hand of an Almighty Being had worked in behalf of the Jews? And must not this have had a powerful tendency to discredit the idolatry of the country?