Matthew Poole and continuators on Esther 3:9

9 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 kings treasuries.

Let there be a written Edict from the King.

Whether these were Hebrew, or Babylonish, or Graecian talents we cannot certainly know. But whichsoever they were, it was a vast sum to be paid out of his own estate, which he was willing to sacrifice to his revenge.

Either 1. Of this business, to wit, of destroying the Jews: which as soon as they have procured to be done, I will pay the mony into their hands, that by them it may be paid into the Kings Exchequer. Or rather 2. Of the Kings business, or of the treasures, as is implied in the following words. I will pay it to the Kings receivers, that they may put it into the Kings treasures.

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