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Ester 8:14

Och på grund av konungens befallning drogo ilbuden på de kungliga travarna skyndsamt och med hast åstad, så snart påbudet hade blivit utfärdat i Susans borg.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Camel;   Post;   Proclamation;   Shushan (Susa);   Thompson Chain Reference - Decrees of Kings;   King's Decrees;   Nation, the;   Shushan;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Medo-Persian Kingdom;   Mule, the;   Palaces;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mule;   Posts;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Persia;   Susa (shushan);   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Post;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahimaaz;   Camel;   Epistle;   Esther;   Horse;   Mule;   Persia;   Post;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Couriers;   Esther;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mule;   Post;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Camel;   Mule;   Posts,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beast;   Camel;   Epistle;   Guard;   Horse;   Mule;   Persians;   Post;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Horse;   Shushan;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 26;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

being hastened: 1 Samuel 21:8, Ecclesiastes 9:10

Shushan: Esther 1:2, Esther 2:3, Esther 3:15, Nehemiah 1:1, Daniel 8:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:61 - they rode 1 Kings 4:28 - dromedaries 1 Kings 10:25 - and mules 2 Chronicles 30:6 - the posts went 2 Chronicles 30:10 - the posts Ezra 6:12 - I Darius Esther 3:13 - by posts Esther 3:14 - The copy Job 9:25 - swifter Jeremiah 51:31 - post

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out,.... Or on the mules, which in the Persian language were called "ahashteranim";

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being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment; who gave them a special order to make what haste they could, that the Jews might have time to prepare for their defence, and their enemies be the more intimidated:

and the decree was given at Shushan the palace; the king's counsellors agreeing to it, and perhaps signing it, as they did the former; see Esther 3:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Being hastened - Between Sivan, the third month (June), when the posts went out, and Adar, the twelfth month (March), when the struggle was to take place, the interval would be one of more than 8 months; but all haste was made, with the object of their being no misunderstanding.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 8:14. The decree was given at Shushan — The contrary effect which it was to produce considered, this decree was in every respect like the former. See Esther 3:8-15.


 
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