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Verse	Translation	Text
Es 8:15	Strong Concordance	And Mordecai [04782] went out [03318] from the presence [06440] of the king [04428] in royal [04438] apparel [03830] of blue [08504] and white [02353], and with a great [01419] crown [05850] of gold [02091], and with a garment [08509] of fine linen [0948] and purple [0713]: and the city [05892] of Shushan [07800] rejoiced [06670] and was glad [08056].
	King James	And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
MORDECAI'S HONORS, AND THE JEWS' JOY. (Est 8:15-17) Mordecai went out . . . in royal apparel--He was invested with the khelaat of official honor. A dress of blue and white was held in great estimation among the Persians; so that Mordecai, whom the king delighted to honor, was in fact arrayed in the royal dress and insignia. The variety and the kind of insignia worn by a favorite at once makes known to the people the particular dignity to which he has been raised.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

MORDECAI'S HONORS, AND THE JEWS' JOY. (Est 8:15-17)

Mordecai went out . . . in royal apparel--He was invested with the khelaat of official honor. A dress of blue and white was held in great estimation among the Persians; so that Mordecai, whom the king delighted to honor, was in fact arrayed in the royal dress and insignia. The variety and the kind of insignia worn by a favorite at once makes known to the people the particular dignity to which he has been raised.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
See the Est 1:6 note. The "crown" was not a crown like the king's, but a mere golden band or coronet. A garment - Or, "an inner robe." The tunic or inner robe of the king was of purple, striped with white.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
The joy experienced throughout the kingdom at these measures. Est 8:15. After transacting with the king this measure so favourable to the Jews, Mordochai went out from the king in a garment of deep blue and white material (comp. Est 1:6), and with a great crown of gold, and a mantle of byssus and purple. תּכריך, ἁπ. λεγ., in the Aramaean תּכריכא, a wide mantle or covering. The meaning is not, as Bertheau remarks, that he left the king in the garment which had been, according to Est 6:8., presented to him, nor that he left him with fresh tokens of his favour, clothed in a garment, crown, and mantle just bestowed on him, but that he left him in a magnificent state garment, and otherwise festally apparelled, that he might thus show, even by his external appearance, the happiness of his heart. Of these remarks, the first and last are quite correct; the second, however, can by no means be so, because it affords no answer to the question how Mordochai had obtained crown and mantle during his stay with the king and in the royal palace. The garments in which Mordochai left the king are evidently the state garments of the first minister, which Mordochai received at his installation to his office, and, as such, no fresh token of royal favour, but only his actual induction in his new dignity, and a sign of this induction to all who saw him issue from the palace so adorned. "The city of Susa rejoiced and was glad," i.e., rejoiced for gladness. The city, i.e., its inhabitants on the whole. Est 8:16 The Jews (i.e., in Susa, for those out of the city are not spoken of till Est 8:17) had light and gladness, and delight and honour." אורה (this form occurs only here and Psa 109:12), light, is a figurative expression for prosperity. יקר, honour - in the joy manifested by the inhabitants of Susa at the prevention of the threatened destruction. Est 8:17 And in every province and city ... there was joy and a glad day, a feast day, comp. Est 9:19, Est 9:22, while Haman's edict had caused grief and lamentation, Est 4:3. "And many of the people of the land (i.e., of the heathen inhabitants of the Persian empire) became Jews, for the fear of the Jews fell upon them." מתיהדים, to confess oneself a Jew, to become a Jew, a denominative formed from יהוּדי, occurs only here. On the confirmatory clause, comp. Exo 15:16; Deu 11:25. This conversion of many of the heathen to Judaism must not be explained only, as by Clericus and Grotius, of a change of religion on the part of the heathen, ut sibi hoc modo securitatem et reginae favorem pararent, metuentes potentiam Mardechaei. This may have been the inducement with some of the inhabitants of Susa. But the majority certainly acted from more honourable motives, viz., a conviction, forced upon them by the unexpected turn of affairs in favour of the Jews, of the truth of the Jewish religion; and the power of that faith and trust in God manifested by the Jews, and so evidently justified by the fall of Haman and the promotion of Mordochai, contrasted with the vanity and misery of polytheism, to which even the heathen themselves were not blind. When we consider that the same motives in subsequent times, when the Jews as a nation were in a state of deepest humiliation, attracted the more earnest-minded of the heathen to the Jewish religion, and induced them to become proselytes, the fact here related will not appear surprising.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

The joy experienced throughout the kingdom at these measures. Est 8:15. After transacting with the king this measure so favourable to the Jews, Mordochai went out from the king in a garment of deep blue and white material (comp. Est 1:6), and with a great crown of gold, and a mantle of byssus and purple. תּכריך, ἁπ. λεγ., in the Aramaean תּכריכא, a wide mantle or covering. The meaning is not, as Bertheau remarks, that he left the king in the garment which had been, according to Est 6:8., presented to him, nor that he left him with fresh tokens of his favour, clothed in a garment, crown, and mantle just bestowed on him, but that he left him in a magnificent state garment, and otherwise festally apparelled, that he might thus show, even by his external appearance, the happiness of his heart. Of these remarks, the first and last are quite correct; the second, however, can by no means be so, because it affords no answer to the question how Mordochai had obtained crown and mantle during his stay with the king and in the royal palace. The garments in which Mordochai left the king are evidently the state garments of the first minister, which Mordochai received at his installation to his office, and, as such, no fresh token of royal favour, but only his actual induction in his new dignity, and a sign of this induction to all who saw him issue from the palace so adorned. "The city of Susa rejoiced and was glad," i.e., rejoiced for gladness. The city, i.e., its inhabitants on the whole.

Est 8:16

The Jews (i.e., in Susa, for those out of the city are not spoken of till Est 8:17) had light and gladness, and delight and honour." אורה (this form occurs only here and Psa 109:12), light, is a figurative expression for prosperity. יקר, honour - in the joy manifested by the inhabitants of Susa at the prevention of the threatened destruction.

Est 8:17

And in every province and city ... there was joy and a glad day, a feast day, comp. Est 9:19, Est 9:22, while Haman's edict had caused grief and lamentation, Est 4:3. "And many of the people of the land (i.e., of the heathen inhabitants of the Persian empire) became Jews, for the fear of the Jews fell upon them." מתיהדים, to confess oneself a Jew, to become a Jew, a denominative formed from יהוּדי, occurs only here. On the confirmatory clause, comp. Exo 15:16; Deu 11:25. This conversion of many of the heathen to Judaism must not be explained only, as by Clericus and Grotius, of a change of religion on the part of the heathen, ut sibi hoc modo securitatem et reginae favorem pararent, metuentes potentiam Mardechaei. This may have been the inducement with some of the inhabitants of Susa. But the majority certainly acted from more honourable motives, viz., a conviction, forced upon them by the unexpected turn of affairs in favour of the Jews, of the truth of the Jewish religion; and the power of that faith and trust in God manifested by the Jews, and so evidently justified by the fall of Haman and the promotion of Mordochai, contrasted with the vanity and misery of polytheism, to which even the heathen themselves were not blind. When we consider that the same motives in subsequent times, when the Jews as a nation were in a state of deepest humiliation, attracted the more earnest-minded of the heathen to the Jewish religion, and induced them to become proselytes, the fact here related will not appear surprising.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Great crown - Which the chief of the Persian princes were permitted to wear but with sufficient distinction from the king's crown. The city - Not only Jews, but the greatest number of the citizens, who by the law of nature abhorred bloody counsels, and had a complacency in acts of mercy.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Blue and white - Probably stripe interchanged with stripe; or blue faced and bordered with white fur. A great crown of gold - A large turban, ornamented with gold, jewels, etc. Fine linen and purple - See on Gen 41:42 (note). The בץ buts, here mentioned, is most probably the same with the byssus of the ancients; supposed to be the beautiful tuft or beard, growing out of the side of the pinna longa, a very large species of muscle, found on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, of which there are a pair of gloves in the British Museum. This byssus I have described elsewhere. Shushan - was glad - Haman was too proud to be popular; few lamented his fall.

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¹⁵ And Mordecai [04782] went out [03318] from the presence [06440] of the king [04428] in royal [04438] apparel [03830] of blue [08504] and white [02353], and with a great [01419] crown [05850] of gold [02091], and with a garment [08509] of fine linen [0948] and purple [0713]: and the city [05892] of Shushan [07800] rejoiced [06670] and was glad [08056].
¹⁶ The Jews [03064] had light [0219], and gladness [08057], and joy [08342], and honour [03366].
¹⁷ And in every province [04082], and in every city [05892], whithersoever [04725] the king's [04428] commandment [01697] and his decree [01881] came [05060], the Jews [03064] had joy [08057] and gladness [08342], a feast [04960] and a good [02896] day [03117]. And many [07227] of the people [05971] of the land [0776] became Jews [03054]; for the fear [06343] of the Jews [03064] fell [05307] upon them.

⁶ Where were white [02353], green [03768], and blue [08504], hangings, fastened [0270] with cords [02256] of fine linen [0948] and purple [0713] to silver [03701] rings [01550] and pillars [05982] of marble [08336]: the beds [04296] were of gold [02091] and silver [03701], upon a pavement [07531] of red [0923], and blue [08504], and white [01858], and black [05508], marble [08336].

²⁵ There shall no man [0376] be able to stand [03320] before [06440] you: for the LORD [03068] your God [0430] shall lay [05414] the fear [06343] of you and the dread [04172] of you upon [06440] all the land [0776] that ye shall tread [01869] upon, as he hath said [01696] unto you.

¹⁶ Fear [0367] and dread [06343] shall fall [05307] upon them; by the greatness [01419] of thine arm [02220] they shall be as still [01826] as a stone [068]; till thy people [05971] pass over [05674], O LORD [03068], till the people [05971] pass over [05674], which [02098] thou hast purchased [07069].

³ And in every province [04082], whithersoever [04725] the king's [04428] commandment [01697] and his decree [01881] came [05060], there was great [01419] mourning [060] among the Jews [03064], and fasting [06685], and weeping [01065], and wailing [04553]; and many [07227] lay [03331] in sackcloth [08242] and ashes [0665].

²² As the days [03117] wherein the Jews [03064] rested [05117] from their enemies [0341], and the month [02320] which was turned [02015] unto them from sorrow [03015] to joy [08057], and from mourning [060] into a good [02896] day [03117]: that they should make [06213] them days [03117] of feasting [04960] and joy [08057], and of sending [04916] portions [04490] one [0376] to another [07453], and gifts [04979] to the poor [034].

¹⁹ Therefore the Jews [03064] of the villages [06521], that dwelt [03427] in the unwalled [06519] towns [05892], made [06213] the fourteenth [0702] [06240] day [03117] of the month [02320] Adar [0143] a day of gladness [08057] and feasting [04960], and a good [02896] day [03117], and of sending [04916] portions [04490] one [0376] to another [07453].

¹⁷ And in every province [04082], and in every city [05892], whithersoever [04725] the king's [04428] commandment [01697] and his decree [01881] came [05060], the Jews [03064] had joy [08057] and gladness [08342], a feast [04960] and a good [02896] day [03117]. And many [07227] of the people [05971] of the land [0776] became Jews [03054]; for the fear [06343] of the Jews [03064] fell [05307] upon them.

¹² Let there be none to extend [04900] mercy [02617] unto him: neither let there be any to favour [02603] his fatherless children [03490].

¹⁶ The Jews [03064] had light [0219], and gladness [08057], and joy [08342], and honour [03366].

⁸ Let the royal [04438] apparel [03830] be brought [0935] which the king [04428] useth to wear [03847], and the horse [05483] that the king [04428] rideth [07392] upon, and the crown [03804] royal [04438] which is set [05414] upon his head [07218]:

⁴² And Pharaoh [06547] took off [05493] his ring [02885] from his hand [03027], and put [05414] it upon Joseph's [03130] hand [03027], and arrayed [03847] him in vestures [0899] of fine linen [08336], and put [07760] a gold [02091] chain [07242] about his neck [06677];