Exodus 1:14-16
lives <02416> [their lives.]
[in mortar.]
rigorous <06531> [was with rigour.]
observe .... delivery <07200 070> [and see them.]
Or, rather, "and ye see them by the stone-troughs;" for so {ovnayim,} from {aven,} a stone, seems to signify (compare ch. 7:19), in which they washed the new-born infants. See this subject fully illustrated in Fragments to Calmet, Nos. 312, 313.
kill <04191> [then ye shall.]
Exodus 1:22
sons <01121> [A.M. 2431. B.C. 1573. Every son.]
Exodus 1:1
Exodus 22:17-19
her ... refuses <03985> [utterly.]
pay <08254> [pay. Heb. weigh.]
bride price ... virgins <01330 04119> [dowry of virgins.]
Exodus 22:2
breaking <04290> [breaking.]
blood <01818> [no blood.]
Exodus 15:16
dread <06343> [dread.]
still <01826> [still.]
whom .... bought <02098 07069> [which thou.]
Exodus 21:16
kidnaps <01589> [stealeth.]
sells him .... caught <04376 04672> [selleth him.]
him .... caught ... holding <04672 03027> [found in.]
Esther 3:6-10
sought <01245> [sought.]
first month ..... month ............................. month ......... month ..... month <02320 07223> [the first month.]
twelfth <08147> [in the twelfth.]
pur ....... cast <05307 06332> [they cast Pur.]
Adar <0143> [Adar.]
particular <06340> [scattered abroad.]
laws ................ laws <01881> [their laws.]
King ...................................... king's ......... king ..... haven <07737 04428> [for the king's profit to. Heb. meet, or equal for the king to, etc.]
destroy <06> [that they may be destroyed. Heb. to destroy them. and I will pay. Heb. and I will weigh.]
Here Haman is obliged to acknowledge that there would be a loss to the revenue, which he was willing to make up out of his own property. Ten thousand talents of silver, counted by the Babylonish talent, amount to 2,119,000Å“.; but reckoned by the Jewish talent, they amount to double that sum. In those days, silver and gold were more plentiful than at present; and we have many instances of individuals possessing almost incredible riches. Herodotus relates, that when Xerxes went into Greece, Pythius the Lydian had 2,000 talents of silver, and 4,000,000 of gold darics, which unitedly amount to nearly 5,500,000Å“. Plutarch tells us, that after Crassus had dedicated the tenth of all he had to Hercules, he entertained the Roman people at 10,000 tables, and distributed to every citizen as much corn as was sufficient for three months; and, after all these expenses, he had 7,100 Roman talents left, which amount to more than 1,500,000Å“. Lentulus the augur is said to have possessed no less than 3,333,333Å“. 6s. 8d. Apicius was worth more than 916,671Å“ 13s. 4d.; and, after having spent in his kitchen 833,333Å“ 6s. 8d. he considered the remainder too little for his support, and poisoned himself!
ten thousand <06235 0505> [ten thousand.]
removed <05493> [took.]
hostile <06887> [enemy. or, oppressor.]
Matthew 2:16
saw <1492> [when.]
<3029> [was exceeding.]
to kill <337> [and slew.]
according <2596> [according.]
