Ester 6:1

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

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Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Hata, pada malam itu juga lenyaplah pengantuk dari pada baginda, maka dititah baginda bawa hadir akan kitab tadzkirat, yaitu tawarikh, lalu ia itu dibacakan di hadapan hadirat baginda.

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that night: Esther 5:8, Genesis 22:14, 1 Samuel 23:26, 1 Samuel 23:27, Isaiah 41:17, Romans 11:33

could not the king sleep: Heb. the king's sleep fled away, Daniel 2:1, Daniel 6:18

the book of records: As chronicles were composed among the Persians, a more instructive and interesting work could not be brought before the king; because they were all written in verse, and were generally the work of the most eminent poets of the empire. Esther 2:23, Malachi 3:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 40:1 - it came Genesis 40:5 - General Genesis 41:1 - that Pharaoh Ruth 2:3 - hap was 1 Samuel 26:12 - a deep sleep 1 Kings 14:19 - book Esther 2:22 - and Esther certified Esther 10:2 - in the book Psalms 77:4 - holdest Ecclesiastes 2:23 - his heart

Gill's Notes on the Bible

On that night could not the king sleep,.... The night after he had been at Esther's banquet, which it might be thought would rather have caused sleep; and therefore Jarchi calls it a miracle; and no doubt it was owing to the overruling providence of God, and not to anxious thoughts about his neglect of Esther so long, nor what should be her request to him, nor jealousy of any amorous intrigue with Haman, nor of any conspiracy of theirs against his life:

and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; the diaries or journal, in which memorable facts were recorded; this he did to divert himself, and pass away time; though here also the providence of God was specially concerned; for otherwise he might have sent for any of his wives and concubines, or singing men and women, to have diverted him:

and they were read before the king; until the morning, until it was time to rise, as appears by what follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VI

That night the king, not being able to sleep, orders the

chronicles of the kingdom to be read to him; and finds there

the record concerning the discovery of the treason of the two

eunuchs, made by Mordecai, 1, 2.

He inquires whether Mordecai had been rewarded, and was answered

in the negative, 3.

At this time Haman arrives, in order to request the king's

permission to hang Mordecai; and being suddenly asked what

should be done to the man whom the king delighted to honour,

supposing that himself must be meant, presented the ceremonial,

4-9.

The king orders him to give Mordecai those honours; which he

performs, to his extreme mortification, 10, 11.

He informs his wife Zeresh of these transactions, who predicts

his downfall, 12-13.

He is hurried by the eunuchs to the queen's banquet, 14.

NOTES ON CHAP. VI

Verse Esther 6:1. On that night could not the king sleep — The Targum says the king had a dream, which was as follows:-"And the king sat one in the similitude of a man who spoke these words to him: Haman desireth to slay thee, and to make himself king in thy stead. Behold, he will come unto thee early in the morning, to ask from thee the man who rescued thee from death, that he may slay him: but say thou unto Haman, What shall be done for the man whose honour the king studieth? And thou wilt find that he will ask nothing less from thee than the royal vestments, the regal crown, and the horse on which the king is wont to ride."

The records of the chronicles — It may be well asked, Why should the king, in such a perturbed state of mind, wish such a dry detail, as chronicles afford, to be read to him? But the truth is, as chronicles were composed among the Persians, he could not have brought before him any work more instructive, and more entertaining; because they were all written in verse, and were generally the work of the most eminent poets in the empire. They are written in this way to the present time; and the famous epic poem of the finest Persian poet, Ferdusi, the Homer of India, is nothing else than a collection of chronicles brought down from the creation to the reign of Mohammed Ghezny, in the beginning of the tenth century. After thirty years' labour, he finished this poem, which contained one hundred and twenty thousand lines, and presented it to the Sultan Mahmoud, who had promised to give him a dinar (eight shillings and sixpence) for every line. The poem was finished A.D. 984; and was formed out of compositions of a similar nature made by former poets. This chronological poem is written in all the harmony, strength, and elegance of the most beautiful and harmonious language in the universe; and what adds greatly to its worth is, that it has few Arabic words, with which the beautiful Persian tongue was loaded, and in my opinion corrupted, after the conquest of the major part of Asia by the Mohammedans. The pedants of Hindoostan, whether they speak or write, in prose or in verse, affect this commixture of Arabic words; which, though they subjugate them to Persian rules, are producing a ruggedness in a language, which in Ferdusi, flows deep and strong like a river of oil over every kind of channel. Such, I suppose, was the chronicle that was read to Ahasuerus, when his distractions prevented his sleep, and his troubled mind required that soothing repose which the gentle though powerful hand of poetry is alone, in such circumstances, capable of affording. Even our rough English ancestors had their poetic chronicles; and, among many, the chronicle of Robert of Gloucester is proof in point. I need not add, that all that is real in Ossian is of the same complexion.