Ester 3:15

Filipino Cebuano Bible

15 Ang mga correo nanagdala sa pagdali sa sugo sa hari, ug ang sugo gihatag didto sa Susan, nga mao ang palacio. Ug ang hari ug si Aman nanlingkod sa pag-inum; apan ang ciudad sa Susan nalibog.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hastened: Proverbs 1:16, Proverbs 4:16

sat down: Hosea 7:5, Amos 6:6, John 16:20, Revelation 11:10

the city: Esther 4:16, Esther 8:15, Proverbs 29:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:25 - they sat Exodus 1:1 - General Judges 16:25 - their hearts 2 Kings 9:34 - he did eat 2 Chronicles 30:10 - the posts Ezra 6:12 - I Darius Ezra 7:13 - I make Esther 1:2 - Shushan Esther 4:8 - the copy Esther 5:4 - the banquet Esther 5:14 - go thou in Esther 7:1 - banquet Esther 8:14 - Shushan Esther 9:6 - Shushan Esther 9:29 - the daughter of Abihail Proverbs 19:10 - Delight Proverbs 31:4 - General Isaiah 22:5 - perplexity Ezekiel 21:10 - should Daniel 8:2 - Shushan

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The post went out, being hastened by the king's command,.... Both to set out and make as much dispatch as possible:

and the decree was given in Shushan the palace; by the king, and with the advice of his courtiers:

and the king and Haman sat down to drink; at a banquet which perhaps Haman had prepared, in gratitude to the king for what he had granted him, both being highly delighted with what had been done:

but the city Shushan was perplexed; the court was agreed, but the city was divided, as the former Targum says, with the joy of strange nations, and the weeping of the people of Israel, there being many Jews in the city; with whom no doubt there were many in connection, through affinity or friendship, or commerce, that were concerned for them; or, however, were shocked at such a barbarous scheme; and which they knew not where it would end, and how far they themselves might be involved in it, when once a mob had such a power granted to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shushan was perplexed - Susa was now the capital of Persia, and the main residence of the Persians of high rank. These, being attached to the religion of Zoroaster, would naturally sympathize with the Jews, and be disturbed at their threatened destruction. Even apart from this bond of union, the decree was sufficiently strange and ominous to “perplex” thoughtful citizens.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 3:15. The posts — Literally, the couriers, the hircarrahs, those who carried the public despatches; a species of public functionaries, who have been in use in all nations of the world from the remotest antiquity.

The decree was given at Shushan — It was dated from the royal Susa, where the king then was.

The city Shushan was perplexed. — They saw that in a short time, by this wicked measure the whole city would be thrown into confusion; for, although the Jews were the only objects of this decree, yet, as it armed the populace against them, even the Persians could not hope to escape without being spoiled, when a desperate mob had begun to taste of human blood, and enrich themselves with the property of the murdered. Besides, many Persian families had, no doubt, become united by intermarriages with Jewish families, and in such a massacre they would necessarily share the same fate with the Jews. A more impolitic, disgraceful, and cruel measure was never formed by any government; and one would suppose that the king who ordered it must have been an idiot, and the counsellors who advised it must have been madmen. But a despotic government is ever capable of extravagance and cruelty; for as it is the bane of popular freedom and happiness, so is it the disgrace of political wisdom and of all civil institutions. Despotism and tyranny in the state are the most direct curses which insulted justice can well inflict upon a sinful nation.