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The last news we had of Haman left him in his cups,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+3:15"><I>ch.</I> iii. 15</A>.
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Our last news of queen Esther left her in tears, fasting and praying.
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Now this chapter brings in,
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I. Esther in her joys, smiled upon by the king and honoured with his
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company at her banquet of wine,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:1-8">ver. 1-8</A>.
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II. Haman upon the fret, because he had not Mordecai's cap and knee,
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and with great indignation setting up a gallows for him,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:9-14">ver. 9-14</A>.
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Thus those that sow in tears shall reap in joy, but the triumphing of
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<TR><TD><FONT SIZE=+1><I>Esther's Approach to the King.</I></FONT></TD>
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<TD ALIGN=RIGHT><FONT SIZE=-1>B. C.</FONT> 510.</TD></TR>
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<FONT SIZE=+1>1 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on
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<I>her</I> royal <I>apparel,</I> and stood in the inner court of the king's
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house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his
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royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the
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house.
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2 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in
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the court, <I>that</I> she obtained favour in his sight: and the king
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held out to Esther the golden sceptre that <I>was</I> in his hand. So
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Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
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3 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther?
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and what <I>is</I> thy request? it shall be even given thee to the
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half of the kingdom.
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4 And Esther answered, If <I>it seem</I> good unto the king, let the
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king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have
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prepared for him.
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5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do
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as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet
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that Esther had prepared.
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6 And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What
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<I>is</I> thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what <I>is</I>
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thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be
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performed.
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7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request
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<I>is;</I>
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8 If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it
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please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request,
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let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare
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for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
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Here is,
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I. Esther's bold approach to the king,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:1"><I>v.</I> 1</A>.
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When the time appointed for their fast was finished she lost no time,
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but on the third day, when the impression of her devotions were fresh
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upon her spirit, she addressed the king. When the heart is enlarged in
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communion with God it will be emboldened in doing and suffering for
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him. Some think that the three days' fast was only one whole day and
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two whole nights, in all which time they did not take any food at all,
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and that this is called <I>three days,</I> as Christ's lying in the
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grave so long is. This exposition is favoured by the consideration that
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on the third day the queen made her appearance at court. Resolutions
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which have difficulties and dangers to break though should be pursued
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without delay, lest they cool and slacken. <I>What thou doest,</I>
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which must be done boldly, <I>do it quickly.</I> Now she <I>put on her
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royal apparel,</I> that she might the better recommend herself to the
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king, and laid aside her fast-day clothes. She put on her fine clothes,
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not to please herself, but her husband; in her prayer, as we find in
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the Apocrypha
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(<U>Esther xiv. 16</U>),
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she thus appeals to God: <I>Thou knowest, Lord, I abhor the sign of my
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high estate which is upon my head, in the days wherein I show myself,
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&c.</I> Let hose whose rank obliges them to wear rich clothes learn
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hence to be dead to them, and not make them their adorning. She stood
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<I>in the inner court over against the king,</I> expecting her doom,
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between hope and fear.</P>
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II. The favourable reception which the king gave her. When he <I>saw
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her</I> she <I>obtained favour in his sight.</I> The apocryphal author
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and Josephus say that she took two maids with her, on one of whom she
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leaned, while the other bore up her train,--that her countenance was
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cheerful and very amiable, but her heart was in anguish,--that the king,
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lifting up his countenance that shone with majesty, at first looked
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very fiercely upon here, whereupon she grew pale, and fainted, and
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bowed herself on the head of the maid that went by her; but then God
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changed the spirit of the king, and, in a fear, he leaped from his
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throne, took her in his arms till she came to herself, and comforted
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her with loving words. Here we are only told,</P>
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1. That he protected her from the law, and assured her of safety, by
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<I>holding out to her the golden sceptre</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:2"><I>v.</I> 2</A>),
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which she thankfully <I>touched the top of,</I> thereby presenting
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herself to him as a humble petitioner. Thus having had power with God
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and prevailed, like Jacob, she had power with men too. <I>He that will
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lose his life</I> for God shall <I>save it,</I> or find it in a better
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life.</P>
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2. That he encouraged her address
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:3"><I>v.</I> 3</A>):
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<I>What wilt thou, queen Esther, and what is thy request?</I> So far
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was he from counting her an offender that he seemed glad to see her,
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and desirous to oblige her. He that had divorced one wife for not
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coming when she was sent for would not be severe to another for coming
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when she was not sent for. God can turn the hearts of men, of great
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men, of those that act most arbitrarily, which way he pleases towards
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us. Esther feared that she should perish, but was promised that she
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should have what she might ask for, though it were <I>the half of the
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kingdom.</I> Note, God in his providence often prevents the fears, and
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outdoes the hopes, of his people, especially when they venture in his
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cause. Let us from this story infer, as our Saviour does from the
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parable of the unjust judge, an encouragement to <I>pray always</I> to
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our God, <I>and not faint,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Lu+18:6-8">Luke xviii. 6-8</A>.
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Hear what this haughty king says (<I>What is thy petition, and what is
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thy request? It shall be granted thee</I>), and say <I>shall not
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God</I> hear and answer the prayers of <I>his own elect, that cry day
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and night to him?</I> Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to
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the God of love and grace. She was not called; we are: the Spirit says,
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<I>Come,</I> and the bride says, <I>Come.</I> She had a law against
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her; we have a promise, many a promise, in favour of us: <I>Ask, and it
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shall be given you.</I> She had no friend to introduce her, or
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intercede for her, while on the contrary he that was then the king's
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favourite was her enemy; but we have an advocate with the Father, in
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whom he is well pleased. <I>Let us therefore come boldly to the throne
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of grace.</I></P>
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3. That all the request she had to make to him, at this time, was that
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he would please to come to a banquet which she had prepared for him,
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and bring Haman along with him,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:4,5"><I>v.</I> 4, 5</A>.
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Hereby,
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(1.) She would intimate to him how much she valued his favour and
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company. Whatever she had to ask, she desired his favour above any
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thing, and would purchase it at any rate.
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(2.) She would try how he stood affected to her; for, if he should
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refuse this, it would be to no purpose as yet to present her other
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request.
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(3.) She would endeavour to bring him into a pleasant humour, and
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soften his spirit, that he might with the more tenderness receive the
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impressions of the complaint she had to make to him.
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(4.) She would please him, by making court to Haman his favourite, and
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inviting him to come whose company she knew he loved and whom she
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desired to have present when she made her complaint; for she would say
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nothing of him but what she durst say to his face.
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(5.) She hoped at the banquet of wine to have a fairer and more
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favourable opportunity of presenting her petition. Wisdom is profitable
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to direct how to manage some men that are hard to deal with, and to
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take them by the right handle.</P>
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4. That he readily came, and ordered Haman to come along with him
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:5"><I>v.</I> 5</A>),
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which was an indication of the kindness he still retained for her; if
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he really designed the destruction of her and her people, he would not
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have accepted her banquet. There he renewed his kind enquiry (<I>What
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is thy petition?</I>) and his generous promise, that it should be
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granted, <I>even to the half of the kingdom</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:6"><I>v.</I> 6</A>),
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a proverbial expression, by which he assured her that he would deny her
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nothing in reason. Herod used it,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Mk+6:23">Mark vi. 23</A>.</P>
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5. That then Esther thought fit to ask no more than a promise that he
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would please to accept of another treat, the next day, in her
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apartment, and Haman with him
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:7,8"><I>v.</I> 7, 8</A>),
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intimating to him that then she would let him know what her business
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was. This adjourning of the main petition may be attributed,
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(1.) To Esther's prudence; thus she hoped yet further to win upon him
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and ingratiate herself with him. Perhaps her heart failed her now when
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she was going to make her request, and she desired to take some further
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time for prayer, that God would give her <I>a mouth and wisdom.</I> The
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putting of it off thus, it is likely, she knew would be well taken as
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an expression of the great reverence she had for the king, and her
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unwillingness to be too pressing upon him. What is hastily asked is
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often as hastily denied; but what is asked with a pause deserves to be
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considered.
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(2.) To God's providence putting it into Esther's heart to delay her
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petition a day longer, she knew not why, but God did, that what was to
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happen in the night intervening between this and to-morrow might
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further her design and make way for her success, that Haman might
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arrive at the highest pitch of malice against Mordecai and might begin
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to <I>fall before him.</I> The Jews perhaps blamed Ester as dilatory,
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and some of them began to suspect her sincerity, or at least her zeal;
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but the event disproved their jealousy, and all was for the best.</P>
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<FONT SIZE=+1>9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart:
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but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not
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up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against
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Mordecai.
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10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home,
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he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
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11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the
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multitude of his children, and all <I>the things</I> wherein the king
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had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes
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and servants of the king.
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12 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man
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come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but
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myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.
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13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai
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the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
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14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let
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a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou
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unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou
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in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased
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Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
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This account here given of Haman is a comment upon that of Solomon,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Pr+21:24">Prov. xxi. 24</A>.
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<I>Proud and haughty scorner is his name that deals in proud wrath.</I>
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Never did any man more answer that name than Haman, in whom pride and
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wrath had so much the ascendant. See him,</P>
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I. Puffed up with the honour of being invited to Esther's feast. He was
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<I>joyful and glad of heart</I> at it,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:9"><I>v.</I> 9</A>.
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Observe with what a high gust he speaks of it
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:12"><I>v.</I> 12</A>),
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how he values himself upon it, and how near he thinks it brings him to
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the perfection of felicity, that Esther the queen did let no man come
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with the king to the banquet but his mighty self, and he thought it was
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because she was exceedingly charmed with his conversation that the next
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day she had invited him also to come with the king; none so fit as he
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to bear the king company. Note, Self-admirers and self-flatterers are
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really self-deceivers. Haman pleased himself with the fancy that the
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queen, by this repeated invitation, designed to honour him, whereas
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really she designed to accuse him, and, in calling him to the banquet,
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did but call him to the bar. What magnifying glasses do proud men look
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at their faces in! And how does the <I>pride of their heart deceive
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them!</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ob+1:3">Obad. 3</A>.</P>
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II. Vexing and fretting at the slight that Mordecai put upon him, and
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thereby made uneasy to himself and to all about him.
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1. Mordecai was as determined as ever: <I>He stood not up, nor moved
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for him,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:9"><I>v.</I> 9</A>.
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What he did was from a principle of conscience, and therefore he
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persevered in it, and would not cringe to Haman, no, not when he had
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reason to fear him and Esther herself complimented him. He knew God
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could and would deliver him and his people from the rage of Haman,
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without any such mean and sneaking expedients to mollify him. Those
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that walk in holy sincerity may walk in holy security, and go on in
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their work, not fearing what man can do unto them. <I>He that walks
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uprightly walks surely.</I>
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2. Haman can as ill bear it as ever; nay, the higher he is lifted up,
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the more impatient is her of contempt and the more enraged at it.
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(1.) It made his own spirit restless, and put him into a grievous
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agitation. He was <I>full of indignation</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:9"><I>v.</I> 9</A>)
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and yet <I>refrained himself,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:10"><I>v.</I> 10</A>.
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Gladly would he have drawn his sword and run Mordecai through for
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affronting him thus; but he hoped shortly to see him fall with all the
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Jews, and therefore with much ado prevailed with himself to forbear
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stabbing him. What a struggle had he in his own bosom between his
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anger, which required Mordecai's death immediately (<I>O that I had of
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his flesh! I cannot be satisfied!</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Job+31:31">Job xxxi. 31</A>),
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and his malice, which had determined to wait for the general massacre!
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Thus <I>thorns and snares are in the way of the froward.</I>
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(2.) It made all his enjoyments sapless. This little affront which he
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received from Mordecai was the dead fly which spoiled all his pot of
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precious ointment; he himself owned in the presence of his wife and
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friends, to the everlasting reproach of a proud and discontented mind,
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that he had no comfort in his estate, preferment, and family, as long
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as Mordecai lived and had a place <I>in the king's gate,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:10-13"><I>v.</I> 10-13</A>.
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He took notice of his own riches and honours, the numerousness of his
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family, and the high posts to which he was advanced, that he was the
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darling of the prince and the idol of the court; and <I>yet all this
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avails him nothing</I> as long as Mordecai is unhanged. Those that are
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disposed to be uneasy will never want something or other to be uneasy
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at; and proud men, though they have <I>much</I> to their mind, yet, if
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they have not <I>all</I> to their mind, it is as nothing to them. The
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thousandth part of what Haman had would serve to make a humble modest
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man as much of a happiness as he expects from this world; and yet Haman
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complained as passionately as if he had been sunk into the lowest
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degree of poverty and disgrace.</P>
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III. Meditating revenge, and assisted therein by his wife and his
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friends,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Es+5:14"><I>v.</I> 14</A>.
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They saw how gladly he would dispense with his own resolution of
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deferring the slaughter till the time determined by the lot, and
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therefore advised him to take an earnest and foretaste of the
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satisfaction he then expected in the speedy execution of Mordecai; let
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him have that to please him at the moment; and having, as he thought,
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made sure the destruction of all the Jews, at the time appointed, he
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will not think scorn, for the present, to lay hands on Mordecai alone.
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1. For the pleasing of his fancy they advise him to get <I>a gallows
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ready,</I> and have it set up before his own door, that, as soon as
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ever he could get the warrant signed, there might be no delay of the
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execution; he would not need so much as to stay the making of the
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gallows. This is very agreeable to Haman, who has the gallows made and
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fixed immediately; it must be fifty cubits high, or as near that as
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might be, for the greater disgrace of Mordecai and to make him a
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spectacle to every one that passed by; and it must be before Haman's
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door, that all men might take notice it was to the idol of his revenge
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that Mordecai was sacrificed and that he might feed his eyes with the
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sight.
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2. For the gaining of his point they advise him to go early in the
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morning to the king, and get an order from him for the hanging of
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Mordecai, which, they doubted not, would be readily granted to one who
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was so much the king's favourite and who had so easily obtained an
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edict for the destruction of the whole nation of the Jews. There needed
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no feigned suggestion; it was enough if he let the king know that
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Mordecai, in contempt of the king's command, refused to reverence him.
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And now we leave Haman to go to bed, pleased with the thoughts of
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seeing Mordecai hanged the next day, and then going merrily to the
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banquet, and not dreaming of handselling his own gallows.</P>
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