John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 2. And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai , etc.] which, with the Persians, was a token of the strongest affection and strictest friendship f163 ; the Targum calls it his signatory ring, that with which he signed laws, edicts, letters, patents, etc. and so hereby made him keeper of the seals: and Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman ; appointed him her steward of the estate of Haman, the king had given her.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1, 2 - What Haman would have done mischief with, Esther will do good with. All the trust the king had reposed in Haman, he now placed in Mordecai: happy change. See the vanity of laying up treasure upon earth; he tha heapeth up riches, knoweth not who shall gather them. With what littl pleasure, nay, with what constant vexation, would Haman have looke upon his estate, if he could have foreseen that Mordecai, the man he hated above all men in the world, should have rule over all tha wherein he had laboured! It is our interest to make sure of thos riches which will not be left behind, but which will go with us to another world.
Original Hebrew ויסר5493 המלך4428 את853 טבעתו2885 אשׁר834 העביר5674 מהמן2001 ויתנה5414 למרדכי4782 ותשׂם7760 אסתר635 את853 מרדכי4782 על5921 בית1004 המן׃2001
