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THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on Esther
Chapter Selection:

1:1b Ahasuerus

i.e. Xerxes, see Ezra 7:1.

1:2c fortress

Or 'fortified palace.'

1:3d feast

Specially for drinking, as elsewhere.

1:3e power

Or 'army.'

1:6a marble

Or 'mother of pearl.'

1:7b bounty

Or 'power;' lit. 'hand;' and so ch. 2:18.

1:10c chamberlains

Or 'eunuchs;' and so vers. 12, 15, &c.

1:22a people

i.e. 'should speak his own tongue.'

2:2b servants

Lit. 'young men.'

2:3c custody

Lit. 'under the hand.'

2:3d purification

Or 'preparation.'

2:6e Jeconiah

Jehoiachin, 2Kings 24:6, &c.

2:9f portions

Or 'food.'

2:10g birth

Or 'kindred:' see Num. 10:30; Ruth 2:11, 'nativity.'

2:12h manner

Lit.'law.'

2:18a bounty

Or 'power.'

3:1b Agagite

'Agag' is probably a title of the kings of Amalek.

3:4c matters

or 'words.'

3:7d month

Lit. 'from day to day, and from month to month.'

3:10a enemy

Or 'oppressor,' 'adversary.' Tzar, as ch. 7:4, 6; see Ex. 23:22, Ps. 8:2.

3:12b governors

Or 'pachas:' so chs. 8:9; 9:3.

5:14a gallows

Lit. 'tree,' as ch. 2:23: so elsewhere.

6:2b had

Or 'that they.'

6:3c servants

Elsewhere 'young men.'

8:10a, 8:14a horses of blood

Or 'mules.'

8:10b studs

Some explain it as 'mares.'

9:1c enemies

See Ps. 8:2, Note p.

9:3a king

Lit. 'the doers of the king's affairs:' see ch. 3:9.

9:24a oppressor

Tzar, as ver. 10; ch. 8:1: see Note o, Ps. 8:2.