Matthew Poole and continuators on Esther 8:1
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Esther8:1
1 ON that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman , the Jews enemy, unto Esther the queen, and Mordecai came before the king , for Esther had told what he was unto her .
With all his Goods and Estate, which being justly forfeited to the King, he no less justly bestows it upon the Queen to compensate the danger to which Haman had exposed her.
i. e. Was by the Queens desire admitted into the Kings Presence, and Favour, and Family, and, as it seems, made one of the seven Princes.
i. e. How nearly he was related to her: which till this time she had wisely concealed; this being the fit season to declare it.
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