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In Shushan the palace, i.e. in the city so called, as was noted before, Est_1:2; it not being probable either that they would make such a slaughter in the king’s palace, or that they would be suffered so to do.
Five hundred men; whom by long experience they knew to be their constant and inveterate enemies, and such as would watch all opportunities to destroy them; which also they might possibly now attempt to do. Part of them also might be friends and allies of Haman, and therefore the avowed enemies of Mordecai.