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Ester 5:11
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the glory: Esther 1:4, Genesis 31:1, Job 31:24, Job 31:25, Psalms 49:6, Psalms 49:16, Psalms 49:17, Isaiah 10:8, Jeremiah 9:23, Jeremiah 9:24, Daniel 4:30, Mark 10:24, Luke 12:19, Luke 12:20, 1 Timothy 6:17
the multitude: Esther 9:7-10, Esther 9:12, Esther 9:13, Job 27:14, Job 27:15, Hosea 9:13, Hosea 9:14
and how he had: Esther 3:1
Reciprocal: Numbers 22:17 - I will promote Esther 6:6 - To whom Esther 9:10 - ten sons Job 1:2 - seven sons Job 20:5 - the triumphing Psalms 37:35 - I have Psalms 49:20 - Man Psalms 94:3 - the wicked Proverbs 14:20 - but Ecclesiastes 6:3 - a man Isaiah 16:14 - the glory Amos 6:9 - if Matthew 4:8 - and showeth Luke 4:6 - and the 1 Thessalonians 2:6 - of men
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches,.... Of the multitude of them; which he did partly in a way of ostentation, and partly, if he could, to make his mind easy under the mortification he received from Mordecai; and, it may be, chiefly to aggravate his rudeness and ill behaviour towards him, a man of so much wealth: and the multitude of his children; he had ten, as we learn from Esther 9:10, but the former Targum enlarges them, beyond credit, to the number of two hundred and eight, besides his ten sons, and Shimshai the scribe; such were had in great esteem with the Persians who had many children; to such the king used to send gifts annually k:
and all the things wherein the king had promoted him; the high offices of honour and trust he had put him into:
and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. See Esther 3:1.
k Herodot, Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 136. Strabo. Geograph. l. 15. p. 504.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The multitude of his children - Herodotus tells us that, next to prowess in arms, it was regarded as the greatest proof of manly excellence in Persia to be the father of many sons.” Haman had ten sons (see the margin reference).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Esther 5:11. The multitude of his children — The Asiatic sovereigns delight in the number of their children; and this is one cause why they take so many wives and concubines.
