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Ester 5:12
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Esther: Plutarch, in his life of Artaxerxes, informs us, that none but the king's mother, and his real wife, were permitted to sit at his table; and therefore he mentions it as a condescension in that prince, that he sometimes invited his brothers. Haman, therefore, had some reason to be proud of this favour.
to morrow: Job 8:12, Job 8:13, Job 20:5-8, Psalms 37:35, Psalms 37:36, Proverbs 7:22, Proverbs 7:23, Proverbs 27:1, Luke 21:34, Luke 21:35, 1 Thessalonians 5:3
Reciprocal: Psalms 94:3 - the wicked Isaiah 21:4 - the night Amos 6:7 - and the
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Haman said, moreover,.... To all which he added, and what seemed to delight him most of all, or however was a new additional honour done him:
yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; which he judged was doing him singular honour; and, by the joint affection of the king and queen to him, he thought himself established in his dignity and grandeur:
and tomorrow am I invited unto her also with the king; had been invited, not by a messenger, but by the queen herself, which was a double honour.