Teks -- Esther 8:3 (NET)

8:3 Then Esther again spoke with the king, falling at his feet. She wept and begged him for mercy, that he might nullify the evil of Haman the Agagite which he had intended against the Jews.

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

Wesley: Est 8:3 - To put

To repeal that cruel decree.

JFB: Est 8:3 - Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet

The king was then not reclining at table, but sitting on a divan, most probably in the Persian attitude, leaning back against the cushions, and one foot under him.

JFB: Est 8:3 - besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman

That is, to repeal the sanguinary edict which, at the secret instigation of Haman, had been recently passed (Est 3:12).

Defender: Est 8:3 - Haman the Agagite

Agag was a district in Media. Another possibility, however, is that Haman was an Amalekite. The Amalekites, descendants of Esau, had been inveterate enemies of Israel, and Agag was apparently the name of one of their greatest early kings (Num 24:7), as well as the name of their last and most cruel king (1Sa 15:8, 1Sa 15:33).

Defender: Est 8:3 - devised against the Jews

Although Haman had been executed, his plan to destroy the Jews had the force of the unchangeable law of the Persians, so Esther pled for an offsetting decree to enable them to survive."

TSK: Est 8:3 - fell // besought him with tears // mischief

fell : 1Sa 25:24; 2Ki 4:27

besought him with tears : Heb. she wept and besought him, Isa 38:2; Hos 12:4; Heb 5:7

mischief : Est 3:8-15, Est 7:4

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

Poole: Est 8:3 - To put away the mischief of Haman

To put away the mischief of Haman to repeal that cruel decree, of which see Est 3:13 .

Haydock: Est 8:3 - Down

Down. such reverence is due to God's representatives, whatever heretics may say. (Jude 8.)

Gill: Est 8:3 - And Esther spake yet again before the king // and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears // to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews

And Esther spake yet again before the king,.... Went into his presence, without being called for as before, with a new petition:

and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears; the more to work upon his affections, and move him to grant her request; which she might be the more encouraged to hope for, through the success she already had:

to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews; to revoke, abolish, and make void a mischievous scheme Haman had devised against the Jews, to root out the whole nation of them in the Persian empire.