Esther 3:9 Meaning and Explanation
“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 king's treasuries.”
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Read Full Chapter →Haman asks for a decree of destruction and offers ten thousand talents of silver to the treasury.
What Does Esther 3:9 Mean?
Haman makes his request plain at last: let it be written that they may be destroyed. To seal the bargain he offers an immense sum, ten thousand talents of silver, for the king's treasuries. He will buy a nation's death, treating the lives of a whole people as a transaction to be funded and closed.
The enormous bribe reveals both Haman's wealth and his obsession; he will spend a fortune to satisfy his hatred. That a single man's wounded pride can be translated so smoothly into an offer of mass murder exposes the moral void at the empire's heart. Yet the very greed and haste of this scheme will, in the end, recoil upon its author.
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What does Esther 3:9 mean?
Haman asks for a decree of destruction and offers ten thousand talents of silver to the treasury.