“Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)”
Now on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, the command and edict of the king reached its effect. The day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, but which had been changed to a day when the Jews would have power over those who hated them, demonstrating the arrival of the crucial date and the reversal of expectations: what had been scheduled as a day of Jewish destruction becomes a day when the Jews exercise power over their enemies. This dramatic convergence of the threatening date with the actual outcome represents the theological climax of the narrative, where the hidden providential purposes are finally made manifest in historical events. The verse shows how God often works through reversal and ironic transformation to accomplish His purposes.
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