Teks -- Esther 1:10 (NET)

Queen Vashti is Removed from Her Royal Position

1:10 On the seventh day, as King Ahasuerus was feeling the effects of the wine, he ordered Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who attended him,

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Est 1:10-12 - On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine

As the feast days advanced, the drinking was more freely indulged in, so that the close was usually marked by great excesses of revelry.

JFB: Est 1:10-12 - he commanded . . . the seven chamberlains

These were the eunuchs who had charge of the royal harem. The refusal of Vashti to obey an order which required her to make an indecent exposure of herself before a company of drunken revellers, was becoming both the modesty of her sex and her rank as queen; for, according to Persian customs, the queen, even more than the wives of other men, was secluded from the public gaze. Had not the king's blood been heated with wine, or his reason overpowered by force of offended pride, he would have perceived that his own honor, as well as hers, was consulted by her dignified conduct.

Clarke: Est 1:10 - He commanded Mehuman

He commanded Mehuman - All these are doubtless Persian names; but so disguised by passing through a Hebrew medium, that some of them can scarcely be known. Mehuman signifies a stranger or guest

We shall find other names and words in this book, the Persian etymology of which may be easily traced.

TSK: Est 1:10 - the heart // Harbona // chamberlains

the heart : Gen 43:34; Jdg 16:25; 1Sa 25:36, 1Sa 25:37; 2Sa 13:28; Pro 20:1; Ecc 7:2-4; Ecc 10:19; Eph 5:18, Eph 5:19

Harbona : Est 7:9, Harbonah

chamberlains : or, eunuchs, Dan 1:3-5, Dan 1:18, Dan 1:19

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Est 1:10 - Chamberlains

Chamberlains or eunuchs ; which were much in use and in favour in the eastern courts, and particularly with the Persian emperors, as ancient histories inform us.

Haydock: Est 1:10 - Wine // Mauman

Wine. From the king's excess, and the haughtiness of Vasthi, God took occasion to advance Esther, and to deliver his people. (Calmet) ---

Mauman. Septuagint, "Aman." (Tirinus) ---

But the names vary. The Persians seem to have had a predilection for the number seven, ver. 14. (Calmet) Greek, "the seven eunuchs, ministers (deacons) of Artaxerxes."

Gill: Est 1:10 - On the seventh day // when the heart of the king was merry with wine // he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains, that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king

On the seventh day,.... Of the feast, the last day of it, which the Rabbins, as Jarchi observes, say was the sabbath day, and so the Targum:

when the heart of the king was merry with wine; when he was intoxicated with it, and knew not well what he said or did; and the discourse at table ran upon the beauty of women, as the latter Targum; when the king asserted there were no women so beautiful as those of Babylon, and, as a proof of it, ordered his queen to be brought in:

he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains, that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king; or "eunuchs", as the word is sometimes rendered; and such persons were made use of in the eastern countries to, wait upon women, and so were proper to be sent on the king's errand to the queen.