Esther 3:7-9
1599 Geneva Bible
7 In the first month (that is the month [a]Nisan) in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is a lot) [b]before Haman, from day to day, and from month to month unto the twelfth month, that is the month [c]Adar.
8 Then Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a people scattered, and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws are divers from all people, and they do not observe the [d]King’s laws: therefore it is not the king’s profit to suffer them.
9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed, and I will [e]pay ten thousand talents of silver by the hands of them that have the charge of this business to bring it into the king’s treasury.
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- Esther 3:7 Which answereth to part of March and part of April.
- Esther 3:7 To know what month and day should be good to enterprise this thing, that it might have good success: but God disappointed their lots, and expectation.
- Esther 3:7 Containing part of February and part of March.
- Esther 3:8 These be the two arguments which commonly the worldlings and the wicked use toward princes against the godly, that is, the contempt of their laws, and diminishing of their profit: without respect how God is either pleased or displeased.
- Esther 3:9 Hebrew, weigh.
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