John Trapp on Esther 9:14

Verſe 14. And the King commanded it ſo to be done] He feared not, that thereupon the people would riſe and call him Tyrant to his teeth: as when Bajazet the ſecond had caſt Achmetes Baſſa into priſon, the Janizaries in an uproar inſolently anſwered the great Turk,Turk. hiſt. fol. 444. that they would by and by teach him, as a drunkard, a beaſt, and a raſcal, to uſe his great place and calling with more ſobriety and diſcretion. Ahaſhuerus well enough knew his own power, and was therefore the more bold in diſpoſing, after this manner, of the lives of his ſubjects; who were ready to ſay to him as once Tiberius did to Juſtinus. Si tu volueris, ego ſum; ſi tu non vis, ego non ſum: I am wholly yours to command.

And the decree was at Shuſhan] Dictum, conceſſum, illicò factum. The King was not willing to croſſe Eſther in any thing, ſaith Joſephus.

And they hanged Hamans ten ſonnes] For greater ignominy and terrour to others. Thus God commanded the heads of the twelve Princes of Iſrael, to be hanged up againſt the Sun, Numb. 25.4. Joſhua hanged the King of Ai upon a Gallowes until the evening, chap. 8. and after that the five Kings of the Amorites, chap. 10. God hang'd up Abſalom with his own bare hand.

Abſlon marte furens penſilis arbore, obit.