I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Nailed. Prot. “hanged.” Septuagint “covered with wounds, or fastened on it.” Bible.—Some think that the criminal was to be scourged. De Dieu.—“Let him be hanged on the wood, which shall stand upright, after his house shall have been demolished.” Vatable.—Such was the custom of the Persians. Grot.—Aman perished on the gallows, which he had erected in his own house for Mardocheus. Esther 7:9.—Confiscated. Prot. “be made a dunghill for this.” Bible. Syr. and so forth—We find some examples of such a treatment. 4 Kennicott. 10:27. Daniel 3:5, and 9:6. The effects of those who were condemned to die, in Persia, were generally confiscated. Esther 3:13 and 8:11 and 9:14.