9:13a

If it pleases the king: See note on 1:19a.

edict: See note on 1:20a.

9:13b

be hanged on the gallows: See note on 2:23b. Here however it was not a method of execution, since Haman’s sons were already dead (see 9:7–10). It was their corpses that Esther wanted displayed on the gallows, as a warning to other people.

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