Footnote

“Let the king with Haman come today.” This appears to be the second acrostic of the Tetragrammaton, YHWH, in Esther. ­Ya·vohʼʹ Ham·meʹlekh Weha·manʹ Hai·yohmʹ, in Heb. Three ancient Heb. mss are known that give the Heb. letters of the divine name, ­יהוה (YHWH), in acrostic in majuscule letters, as follows: _יוםה _המןו _מלךה _בואי. The Masorah in a rubric, or in red letters, calls attention to this. See 1:20 ftn.