For both I and my people are sold for destruction, pillage, and genocide. If both we and our children were sold for male and female slaves, I would not have bothered you, for this isn’t worthy of the king’s palace.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 4. Perish. Three terms of the same import express the greatness of the misery. Bible.—King. Whose revenue will be greatly impaired, ( Calmet.) and character injured, for having given such power to a monster. Bible.—The kings of Persia had taken many precautions not to be thus deluded, having appointed officers, who were styled “the eyes and ears” of the king, purposely to obtain all necessary information. But these eyes were often darkened; these ears were often deaf, ( Calmet.) and unwilling to act with fidelity; ( Bible.) though their diligence in make secret transactions known, caused the people to look upon their kings as gods. Apul. Mund. Cyrop. viii. Calmet.
see Hebrew: slanderer