* smote.
Ps 18:34-40,47,48 20:7,8 149:6-9 2Th 1:6
* the stroke.
Jer 18:21
* what they would. Heb. according to their will.
The Chaldee paraphrast says that none appeared against the
Jews but Amalekites only, who were infatuated, and had their
hearts hardened, as Pharaoh's against Israel, to take up arms
to their own destruction. Some had such an inveterate,
implacable malice against the Jews, that Haman's fall and
Mordecai's advancement, instead of convincing, seemed only to
exasperate them the more. How have the most dreadful scourges
ravaged a country, and yet the inhabitants are unmindful of
the Almighty Disposer of events, and that the cause of his
righteous displeasure is their continual provocation! Forty
years long was he grieved with one generation, who learned not
his ways, although daily fed and clothed by a miracle.
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