| Ezra 6:11
| And I have made a decree: That ii any, whosoever, shall alter this commandment, a beam be taken from his house, and set up, and he be nailed upon it, and his house be confiscated.
| Nailed. Protestants, "hanged." Septuagint, "covered with wounds, or fastened on it." (Haydock) --- 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. (Grotius) --- Aman perished on the gallows, which he had erected in his own house for Mardocheus, Esther 7:9. --- Confiscated. Protestants, "be made a dunghill for this." (Haydock) (Syriac, etc.) --- We find some examples of such a treatment, 4 Kings 10:27., and 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.
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