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.

   “He took notice of his own riches and honours, the numerousness of his family, and the high posts to which he was advanced, that he was the darling of the prince and the idol of the court; and yet all this avails him nothing as long as Mordecai is unhanged.

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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

   “And Haman told Zeresh his wife, and all his friends, every thing that had befallen him,....

   “This is the change in the right hand of the Most High, when someone who was only recently boasting that he had power over others, and was more arrogant than anyone, suddenly becomes more wretched than anyone else and weaker than all of them. It …

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