Zeresh

How Nave’s arranged it

• Wife of HamanEsther 5:10–14Esther 6:13

The passages, in Bible order (2)

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1. Esther 5:10–14

   Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. And calling for his friends and his wife Zeresh,

   ›Commentary on Esther 5:10–142 voices

   “Nevertheless Haman refrained himself,.... From showing any outward resentment to Mordecai, from laying hands upon him or taking revenge on him, as being too much below him to avenge himself on a single person, when the whole body of the people Mordecai belonged to would shortly feel the power of his hand for such insolent treatment of him: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife; who, the Targum says, was the daughter of Tatnai, the governor on the other side the river, Ezr 5:3.

   “What a struggle had he in his own bosom between his anger, which required Mordecai's death immediately ( O that I had of his flesh! 31 ), and his malice, which had determined to wait for the general massacre! Thus thorns and snares are in the way of the froward.

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2. Esther 6:13

   Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”

   ›Commentary on Esther 6:132 voices

   “But shalt surely fall before him - The Septuagint adds, ὁτι ὁ Θεος ὁ ζων μετ’ αυτου, for the living God is with him. But this is a sentiment that could scarcely be expected to proceed from the mouth of heathens, such as these were.

   “Two things they grounded their prognostications upon:-- (1.) This Mordecai was of the seed of the Jews; feeble Jews their enemies sometimes called them, but formidable Jews they sometimes found them. They are a holy seed, a praying seed, in covenant with God, and a seed that the Lord hath all along blessed, and therefore let not their enemies expect to triumph over them.

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