Esther 7:4

“For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish, etc.] She makes use of these several words, to express the utter destruction of her and her people, without any exception; not only the more to impress the king’s mind with it, but she has respect to the precise words of the decree, (<170313>Esther 3:13) as she has also to the 10,000 talents of silver Haman offered to pay the king for the grant of it, when she says, “we are sold”, or delivered to be destroyed: but if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue: should never have asked for deliverance from bondage, but have patiently submitted to it, however unreasonable, unjust, and afflictive…”

“The king now learned, perhaps for the first time, that his favorite was a Jewess. Although the enemy ... - i. e. “although the enemy (Haman) would not (even in that case) compensate (by his payment to the treasury) for the king’s loss of so many subjects.” return to 'Top of Page'”

“Sold - By the cruelty of that man who offered a great sum to purchase our destruction. Countervail - His ten thousand talents would not repair the king's loss, in the customs and tributes which the king receives from the Jews, within his dominions. Esther 7:5”

“we are sold: Est 3:9, Est 4:7, Est 4:8; Deu 28:68; Sa1 22:23 to be destroyed: etc. Heb. that they should destroy, and kill, and cause to perish, Est 3:13, Est 8:11; Psa 44:22, Psa 44:23 But if we: Gen 37:26-28; Deu 28:68; Jos 9:23; Neh 5:5; Joe 3:6; Amo 2:6 the enemy: Est 7:6, Est 3:9 Esther 7:5”