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If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring [it] into the king’s treasuries.
Esther 3:9 — KJV
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Esther 3:9
King James Version (KJV)
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Esther 3:9
Verse 9 of 15
Commentary
Commentary on Esther 3:9
Theological / DevotionalI will pay. Even Ahasueras could scarcely consider as a light matter such an act of genocide as Hainan contemplated, but Hainan immediately fortified his proposal with a bribe such as even a king could not view with indifference.
Ten thousand talents. Based on the light Babylonian talent, this would be about 377 tons, or 343 metric tons (see Vol. I, pp. 168, 169). Herodotus says that Xerxes (Ahasuerus) once declined such an offer from one of his subjects. The recent Greek war had no doubt made a heavy drain on the royal treasury, but it would be beneath the king’s dignity, perhaps, to accept a bribe.
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