Ester 3:8

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Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sembah Haman kepada baginda raja Ahasyweros: Bahwa adalah suatu bangsa terhambur dan tercerai-berai di antara segala bangsa dalam segala negeri kerajaan tuanku, maka hukum bangsa itu lain dari pada hukum segala bangsa, dan hukum tuankupun tiada diturutnya, maka sebab itu tiada layak kepada tuanku membiarkan mereka itu lagi dengan hidupnya.

Contextual Overview

⁷ In the first moneth (that is, the moneth Nisan) in the twelfth yere of king Ahasuerus, they cast Phur, that is a lot, before Haman from day to day, and from moneth to moneth to the twelfth moneth, that is, the moneth Adar. ⁸ And Haman sayde vnto king Ahasuerus: There is here a people scattred abrode, and dispearsed among all people in all the prouinces of thyne empire, and their lawes are diuers from all people, and do not after the kinges lawes, therefore it is not the kinges profite to suffer them after this maner. ⁹ If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and so wyll I waye downe ten thousand talents of siluer by the handes of them that haue the charge of this busines, to bring it into the kinges treasurie. ¹⁰ And the king toke his ring from his hand, & gaue it vnto Haman the sonne of Amadatha the Agagite, the Iewes enemie. ¹¹ And the king saide vnto Haman: Let the siluer be thyne, & do with that people as it pleaseth thee. ¹² Then were the kinges scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first moneth, & there was written according as Haman commaunded vnto all the kinges officers, and to the captaynes that were ouer euery prouince, and to the rulers of euery people in the countryes on euery side according to the writing therof, and to euery nation after their language, in the name of king Ahasuerus was it writen, and sealed with the kinges ring. ¹³ And the letters were sent by postes into all the kinges prouinces, to roote out, to kill, and to destroy all Iewes both young and olde, children and women in one day [namely] vpon the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth (which is the moneth Adar) & to spoyle the as a pray. ¹⁴ This was the summe of the writing, that there should be a commaundement geuen in al prouinces, and published vnto all people, that they should be redy against the same day. ¹⁵ And the postes went in all the haste according to the kinges commaundement, and in Susan the chiefe citie was the commaundement deuised: And the king and Haman sate and dranke, when in the meane time the citie of Susan was disquieted.

Bible Verse Review
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scattered abroad: Leviticus 26:33, Deuteronomy 4:27, Deuteronomy 30:3, Deuteronomy 32:26, Nehemiah 1:8, Jeremiah 50:17, Ezekiel 6:8, Ezekiel 11:16, Zechariah 7:14, John 7:35, James 1:1, 1 Peter 1:1

their laws: Ezra 4:12-15, Acts 16:20, Acts 16:21, Acts 17:6, Acts 17:7, Acts 24:5, Acts 28:22

for the king's profit to: Heb. meet, or equal for the king to, etc

Reciprocal: Numbers 23:9 - dwell alone Ezra 4:22 - why should Esther 2:10 - had not showed Esther 4:1 - all that Esther 5:14 - speak thou Esther 6:4 - to speak Esther 8:3 - mischief Job 24:22 - draweth Psalms 74:8 - said Proverbs 11:11 - it Jeremiah 48:2 - come Jeremiah 48:42 - from Daniel 3:8 - and accused Daniel 3:12 - certain Daniel 6:5 - General Daniel 6:13 - regardeth Micah 2:1 - to Acts 9:2 - desired Acts 25:7 - and laid Ephesians 2:14 - the middle 1 Thessalonians 2:15 - contrary

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
And the serpent was suttiller then euery beast of the fielde which ye lord God hadde made, and he sayde vnto the woman: yea, hath God saide, ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:2
And the woman sayde vnto the serpent: We eate of ye fruite of the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:3
But as for the fruite of the tree which is in the myddes of the garden, God hath sayde, ye shall not eate of it, neither shal ye touche of it, lest peraduenture ye dye.

Genesis 3:9
And the Lorde called Adam, & sayde vnto hym: where art thou?

Genesis 3:10
Which sayde: I hearde thy voyce in the garden, and was afrayde because I was naked, and hyd my selfe.

Genesis 3:12
And Adam said: The woman whom thou gauest [to be] with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I dyd eate.

Genesis 3:21
Unto Adam also and to his wyfe dyd the Lorde God make garments of skynnes, and he put them on.

Genesis 3:22
And the Lorde God sayde: Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, in knowing good and euyll: And now lest peraduenture he put foorth his hande, and take also of the tree of lyfe and eate, and lyue for euer.

Deuteronomy 4:33
Dyd euer any people heare the voyce of God speakyng out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast hearde, and yet lyued?

Deuteronomy 5:25
Nowe therfore why shoulde we dye? that this great fire shoulde consume vs: If we heare the voyce of the Lord our God any more, we shall dye:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Haman said unto King Ahasuerus, Or "had said" r, as some choose to render it; nor indeed is it likely that Haman should cast lots to know when would be a proper time to destroy the Jews, until he had got leave of the king to do it:

there is a certain people scattered abroad, and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; for, though many of the Jews returned to their own land, on the proclamation of Cyrus, yet others remained, being well settled as to worldly things, and not having that zeal for God and his worship as became them, and not caring to be at the trouble and expense of such a journey, and especially those of the ten tribes; now Haman, through contempt of them, mentions them not by name, only describes them as a scattered insignificant people:

and their laws are different from all people; concerning their diet and observation of days, and other things; so Empedocles, an Heathen, observes s of the Jews, that they were a separate people from all others in those things; for he says,

"they separated not only from the Romans, but even from all men; for, having found out an unmixed way of living, they have nothing common with men, neither table nor libations, nor prayers, nor sacrifices, but are more separate from us than the Susians or Bactrians, or the more remote Indians:''

neither keep they the king's laws; and, no doubt, he had a special respect to the non-observance of the king's command to give him reverence; and in like manner the Jews are represented by Heathen writers, as by Tacitus t, Juvenal u, and others:

therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them; that is, to dwell in his dominions; he got nothing by them, and they might be prejudicial to his subjects, and poison them with their notions; and since they were not obedient to the laws of the kingdom, it was not fit and equitable that they should be continued in it.

r ויאמר "dixerat enim", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, so Patrick. s Apud Philostrat. Vit. Apollon. l. 5. c. 11. t Hist. l. 5. c. 4. u "Romanas antem soliti", &c. Satyr. 14. ver. 99.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 3:8. Their laws are diverse from all people — Such they certainly were; for they worshipped the true God according to his own laws; and this was not done by any other people then on the face of the earth.