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Keil & Delitzsch on Esther 9:24

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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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For Haman, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them (comp. Est 3:1, Est 3:6.), and had cast Pur, that is the lot (see on Est 3:7), to consume them and to destroy them. המם, mostly used of the discomfiture with which God destroys the enemies, Exo 14:24; Deu 2:15, and elsewhere. Esther 9:25
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