The king at the banquet urges Esther to prefer her petition, with the positive assurance that it shall be granted, Est 7:1, Est 7:2. She petitions for her own life, and the life of her people, who were sold to be dest…
1Fue, pues, el rey con Amán al banquete de la reina Ester.
2Y en el segundo día, mientras bebían vino, dijo el rey a Ester: ¿Cuál es tu petición, reina Ester, y te será concedida? ¿Cuál es tu demanda? Aunque sea la mitad del reino, te será otorgada.
3Entonces la reina Ester respondió y dijo: Oh rey, si he hallado gracia en tus ojos, y si al rey place, séame dada mi vida por mi petición, y mi pueblo por mi demanda.
4Porque hemos sido vendidos, yo y mi pueblo, para ser destruidos, para ser muertos y exterminados. Si para siervos y siervas fuéramos vendidos, me callaría; pero nuestra muerte sería para el rey un daño irreparable.
5Respondió el rey Asuero, y dijo a la reina Ester: ¿Quién es, y dónde está, el que ha ensoberbecido su corazón para hacer esto?
6Ester dijo: El enemigo y adversario es este malvado Amán. Entonces se turbó Amán delante del rey y de la reina.
7Luego el rey se levantó del banquete, encendido en ira, y se fue al huerto del palacio; y se quedó Amán para suplicarle a la reina Ester por su vida; porque vio que estaba resuelto para él el mal de parte del rey.
8Después el rey volvió del huerto del palacio al aposento del banquete, y Amán había caído sobre el lecho en que estaba Ester. Entonces dijo el rey: ¿Querrás también violar a la reina en mi propia casa? Al proferir el rey esta palabra, le cubrieron el rostro a Amán.
9Y dijo Harbona, uno de los eunucos que servían al rey: He aquí en casa de Amán la horca de cincuenta codos de altura que hizo Amán para Mardoqueo, el cual había hablado bien por el rey. Entonces el rey dijo: Colgadlo en ella.
10Así colgaron a Amán en la horca que él había hecho preparar para Mardoqueo; y se apaciguó la ira del rey.
ADAM CLARKE BIBLE COMMENTARY
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I. At the banquet of wine - Postquam vino incaluerat, after he had been heated with wine, says the V…
At the banquet of wine - Postquam vino incaluerat, after he had been heated with wine, says the Vulgate. In such a state the king was more likely to come into the measures of the queen.
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II. Let my life be given me - This was very artfully, as well as very honestly, managed; and was high…
Let my life be given me - This was very artfully, as well as very honestly, managed; and was highly calculated to work on the feelings of the king. What! is the life of the queen, whom I most tenderly love, in any kind of danger?
III
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III. To be destroyed, to be slain - She here repeats the words which Haman put into the decree. See Es…
To be destroyed, to be slain - She here repeats the words which Haman put into the decree. See Est 3:13.
Could not countervail the king's damage - Even the ten thousand talents of silver could not be considered as a compensation to the state for the loss of a whole nation of people throughout all their generations.
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IV. Who is he, and where is he - There is a wonderful abruptness and confusion in the original words,…
Who is he, and where is he - There is a wonderful abruptness and confusion in the original words, highly expressive of the state of mind in which the king then was: מי הוא זה ואי זה הוא אשר מלאו לבו לעשות כן mi hu zeh veey zeh hu asher melao libbo laasoth ken.
"Who? He? This one? And where? This one? He? Who hath filled his heart to do thus?" He was at once struck with the horrible nature of a conspiracy so cruel and diabolic.
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V. Haman stood up - He rose from the table to make request for his life, as soon as the king had gon…
Haman stood up - He rose from the table to make request for his life, as soon as the king had gone out; and then he fell on his knees before the queen, she still sitting upon her couch.
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VI. Will he force the queen - On the king's return he found him at the queen's knees; and, professing…
Will he force the queen - On the king's return he found him at the queen's knees; and, professing to think that he intended to do violence to her honor, used the above expressions; though he must have known that, in such circumstances, the thought of perpetrating an act of this kind could not possibly exist.
They covered Haman's face - This was a sign of his being devoted to death: for the attendants saw that the king was determined on his destruction. When a criminal was condemned by a Roman judge, he was delivered into the hands of the serjeant with these words: I, lictor; caput obnubito, arbori infelici suspendito. "Go, serjeant; cover his head, and hang him on the accursed tree."
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VII. Behold also, the gallows - As if he had said, Besides all he has determined to do to the Jews, he…
Behold also, the gallows - As if he had said, Besides all he has determined to do to the Jews, he has erected a very high gallows, on which he had determined, this very day, to hang Mordecai, who has saved the king's life.
Hang him thereon - Let him be instantly impaled on the same post. "Harm watch, harm catch," says the proverb. Perillus was the first person burnt alive in the brazen bull which he had made for the punishment of others; hence the poet said: -
- Nec lex est justior ulla, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.
"Nor can there be a juster law than that the artificers of death should perish by their own invention."
Antiguo Testamento
Esther — Capítulo 7
The king at the banquet urges Esther to prefer her petition, with the positive assurance that it shall be granted, Est 7:1, Est 7:2. She petitions for her own life, and the life of her people, who were sold to be dest…
Texto — Reina-Valera 1960
1Fue, pues, el rey con Amán al banquete de la reina Ester.
2Y en el segundo día, mientras bebían vino, dijo el rey a Ester: ¿Cuál es tu petición, reina Ester, y te será concedida? ¿Cuál es tu demanda? Aunque sea la mitad del reino, te será otorgada.
3Entonces la reina Ester respondió y dijo: Oh rey, si he hallado gracia en tus ojos, y si al rey place, séame dada mi vida por mi petición, y mi pueblo por mi demanda.
4Porque hemos sido vendidos, yo y mi pueblo, para ser destruidos, para ser muertos y exterminados. Si para siervos y siervas fuéramos vendidos, me callaría; pero nuestra muerte sería para el rey un daño irreparable.
5Respondió el rey Asuero, y dijo a la reina Ester: ¿Quién es, y dónde está, el que ha ensoberbecido su corazón para hacer esto?
6Ester dijo: El enemigo y adversario es este malvado Amán. Entonces se turbó Amán delante del rey y de la reina.
7Luego el rey se levantó del banquete, encendido en ira, y se fue al huerto del palacio; y se quedó Amán para suplicarle a la reina Ester por su vida; porque vio que estaba resuelto para él el mal de parte del rey.
8Después el rey volvió del huerto del palacio al aposento del banquete, y Amán había caído sobre el lecho en que estaba Ester. Entonces dijo el rey: ¿Querrás también violar a la reina en mi propia casa? Al proferir el rey esta palabra, le cubrieron el rostro a Amán.
9Y dijo Harbona, uno de los eunucos que servían al rey: He aquí en casa de Amán la horca de cincuenta codos de altura que hizo Amán para Mardoqueo, el cual había hablado bien por el rey. Entonces el rey dijo: Colgadlo en ella.
10Así colgaron a Amán en la horca que él había hecho preparar para Mardoqueo; y se apaciguó la ira del rey.
ADAM CLARKE BIBLE COMMENTARY
Versículo 2
I. At the banquet of wine - Postquam vino incaluerat, after he had been heated with wine, says the V…
Versículo 3
II. Let my life be given me - This was very artfully, as well as very honestly, managed; and was high…
Versículo 4
III. To be destroyed, to be slain - She here repeats the words which Haman put into the decree. See Es…
Versículo 5
IV. Who is he, and where is he - There is a wonderful abruptness and confusion in the original words,…
Versículo 7
V. Haman stood up - He rose from the table to make request for his life, as soon as the king had gon…
Versículo 8
VI. Will he force the queen - On the king's return he found him at the queen's knees; and, professing…
Versículo 9
VII. Behold also, the gallows - As if he had said, Besides all he has determined to do to the Jews, he…