Most of these names are Persian, and readily traceable to Old Persian roots.

On the spoil laid they not their hand ([Referen…

On the spoil laid they not their hand. —This they might have done, according to the edict (Esther 8:11).

(See Gill on Esther 9:7).

The enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them by the former edict. If they had attempted nothing against the people of God, they would not …