Ester 6:8

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

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Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
hendaklah dikeluarkan pakaian kerajaan yang biasa dipakai oleh duli tuanku, dan kuda yang biasa dikendarai oleh duli tuanku, dan hendaklah mahkota kerajaan dikenakan kepada kepala orang itu.

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Let the royal: etc. Heb. Let them bring the royal apparel, wherewith the king clotheth himself. 1 Samuel 18:4, Luke 15:22

the horse: Herodotus relates, that the kings of Persia had horses peculiar to themselves, which were brought from Armenia, and were remarkable for their beauty; and if the same law prevailed in Persia as in Judea, no man, under the penalty of death, might ride on the king's horse, any more than sit on his throne, wear his crown, or hold his sceptre. 1 Kings 1:33

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:43 - and they 1 Kings 22:10 - having put 2 Kings 11:12 - put the crown Esther 8:15 - royal apparel

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear,.... Not a whole suit of clothes, but a single garment; the purple robe, as both the Targums, such as kings wore; that which Cyrus appeared in public in was half purple, and half white, and no other person besides might wear such an one p; it was a capital crime with the Persians to wear any of the king's apparel; Trebazus, an intimate of Artaxerxes, having begged an old gown of him, it was granted, on condition that he would not wear it, it being contrary to the laws of Persia; but he, regardless of the order, appeared in it at court; which affront to the king was so resented by the Persians, that they were for punishing him rigorously, according to the law, had not Artaxerxes declared, that he had ordered him to appear in that dress as his fool q; hence Artabanus, though uncle to Xerxes, was very unwilling to obey his orders, to put on his royal robes, sit on his throne, and sleep on his bed r; so that this was a daring proposal in Haman, which he would never have ventured to have made, had it not been for the great confidence he had in the king's favour;

and the horse that the king rideth upon: the kings of Persia, as Herodotus s relates, had horses peculiar to them, and those were Nisaean horses, which were brought from Armenia, as Strabo says t, and were remarkable for their beauty u; and if the same law obtained in Persia as did in Judea, no man might ride on the king's horse any more than sit on his throne, or hold his sceptre w and perhaps this horse here was not proposed for the person to ride on, but to be led in state before him; and though it is afterwards said that Mordecai rode on horseback, yet it might not be on the king's horse, which might be only led; and what follows seems to confirm it:

and the crown royal which is set upon his head; or, "let it be set", c. not the head of the man, but on the head of the horse and so Aben Ezra; and which sense is countenanced by the Targum, and by the Syriac version, and is approved of by Vatablus and De Dieu; and which the order of the words requires, the horse being the immediate antecedent; and no mention is made of the crown afterwards, as set on the head of Mordecai; nor would Haman have dared to advise to that, nor could it be granted; but this was what was wont to be done, to put the royal crown on the head of a horse led in state; and this we are assured was a custom in Persia x, as it is with the Ethiopians to this day y; and so, with the Romans, horses drawing triumphal chariots were crowned z which Tertullian calls a public horses with their crowns.

p Xenophon Cyropaedia, l. 8. c. 23. q Plutarch. in Artaxerxe. r Herodot. Polymnia, sive, l. 7. c. 15, 16. s Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 192. t Geograph. l. 11. p. 365. u Julian. Opera, par. 1. Orat. 2. p. 94. w Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 5. x Brisson. apud Castell. Lexic. col. 4008. y Alvarez Hist. Ethiop. c. 105. apud ib. col. 3869. z Paschal. de Coronis, l. 8. c. 5. p. 536. a De Corona Militis, c. 13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The honors here proposed by Haman were such as Persian monarchs rarely allowed to subjects. Each act would have been a capital offence if done without permission. Still, we find Persian monarchs allowing their subjects in these or similar acts under certain circumstances.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 6:8. Let the royal apparel be brought — Pride and folly ever go hand in hand. What he asked would have been in any ordinary case against his own life: but he wished to reach the pinnacle of honour: never reflecting that the higher he rose, the more terrible would be his fall. The royal apparel was never worn but by the king: even when the king had lain them aside, it was death to put them on. The Targum has purple robes.

And the horse - and the crown royal — Interpreters are greatly divided whether what is called here the crown royal be not rather an ornament worn on the head of the horse, than what may be called the royal crown. The original may be understood both ways; and our version seems to favour the former opinion; but I think it more likely that the royal crown is meant; for why mention the ordinary trappings of the royal steed?