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Selected Verse: Esther 3:6 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Es 3:6	Strong Concordance	And he thought [05869] scorn [0959] to lay [07971] hands [03027] on Mordecai [04782] alone; for they had shewed [05046] him the people [05971] of Mordecai [04782]: wherefore Haman [02001] sought [01245] to destroy [08045] all the Jews [03064] that were throughout the whole kingdom [04438] of Ahasuerus [0325], even the people [05971] of Mordecai [04782].
	King James	And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
To destroy all the Jews - In the East massacres of a people, a race, a class, have at all times been among the incidents of history, and would naturally present themselves to the mind of a statesman. The Magophonia, or the great massacre of the Magi at the accession of Darius Hystaspis, was an event not then fifty years old, and was commemorated annually. A massacre of the Scythians had occurred about a century previously.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

To destroy all the Jews - In the East massacres of a people, a race, a class, have at all times been among the incidents of history, and would naturally present themselves to the mind of a statesman. The Magophonia, or the great massacre of the Magi at the accession of Darius Hystaspis, was an event not then fifty years old, and was commemorated annually. A massacre of the Scythians had occurred about a century previously.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Scorn - He thought that vengeance was unsuitable to his quality. Destroy - Which he attempted, from that implacable hatred which, as an Amalekite, he had against them; from his rage against Mordecai; and from Mordecai's reason of this contempt, because he was a Jew, which as he truly judged, extended itself to all the Jews, and would equally engage them all in the same neglect. And doubtless Haman included those who were returned to their own land: for that was now a province of his kingdom.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Scorn - He thought that vengeance was unsuitable to his quality. Destroy - Which he attempted, from that implacable hatred which, as an Amalekite, he had against them; from his rage against Mordecai; and from Mordecai's reason of this contempt, because he was a Jew, which as he truly judged, extended itself to all the Jews, and would equally engage them all in the same neglect. And doubtless Haman included those who were returned to their own land: for that was now a province of his kingdom.

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