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Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish origin, you will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him."</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newcom.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/esther/6-13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcom/esther/6-13.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/">Commentaries</a> > Esther 6:13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../esther/6-12.htm" title="Esther 6:12">◄</a> Esther 6:13 <a href="../esther/6-14.htm" title="Esther 6:14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every <i>thing</i> that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai <i>be</i> of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/esther/6.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/esther/6.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/esther/6.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/esther/6.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/esther/6.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/esther/6.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/esther/6.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/esther/6.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/esther/6.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/esther/6.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/esther/6.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/esther/6.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/esther/6.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/esther/6.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/esther/6.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/esther/4-14.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/esther/6.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/esther/6.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/esther/6.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kelly/esther/6.htm" title="Kelly Commentary">Kelly</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/esther/6.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/esther/6.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/esther/6.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/esther/6.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/esther/6.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/esther/6.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/esther/6.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/esther/6.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/esther/6.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/esther/6.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/esther/6.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/esther/6.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/esther/6.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(13) <span class= "bld">Told.</span>—The same word as on a former occasion. <a href="/esther/5-11.htm" title="And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.">Esther 5:11</a>. Then the tale was one of boastful pride in what he had, and no less boastful pride in what he hoped to be; now it is of bitter disappointment and bitter anticipation, not brightened by any of the thoughts which blunt the keenness of many a sorrow, as when men have nobly done their duty, though it is not God’s will that their efforts should succeed for the time, and when the hope could be cherished that a brighter time must dawn before long. Nothing of this comfort could be Hainan’s. He had’ not failed in an honest discharge of his duty, but in a cruel and unjust scheme (not that the king can be called a whit better in this matter); he knew the usages of his country far too well to suppose for a moment that, after having made such an attempt, and having failed, he would be allowed to try a second time.<p><span class= "bld">If Mordecai . . . before whom thou hast begun</span> <span class= "bld">. . .</span>—Poor comfort does the unfortunate schemer get from his household; he knew too well already that he had <span class= "ital">begun</span> to fall, his heart must have told him all too truly that it was but the beginning: what then could he expect from this communication to his family? Had he been the representative of a fallen cause, fallen but not discredited, despairing even of his cause, yet not ashamed of the course that had resulted thus, he might have been helped with counsel and cheering and sympathy. Contrast Zeresh’s perhaps last words to her husband with those, for example, of the wife of good John Rogers, or of Rowland Taylor, on their way. to the stake, in the days of the Marian persecution.<p><span class= "bld"><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/esther/6.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/esther/6-13.htm" title="And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife to him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom you have begun to fall, you shall not prevail against him, but shall surely fall before him.">Esther 6:13</a></span>. <span class="ital">Then said his wise men — </span>The magicians, whom, after the Persian manner, he had called together, to consult upon this strange emergency. <span class="ital">If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews — </span>Which they were told, and it was generally supposed he was, but of which they were not infallibly sure; <span class="ital">before whom thou hast begun to fall — </span>Though but in a point of honour; <span class="ital">thou shalt not prevail against him — </span>They had observed, it is probable, how the Jews had been wonderfully raised from under great oppressions, since the time of Cyrus, and in how many remarkable instances God had appeared for them, and against their enemies, in this very court and kingdom, and thence concluded there was a particular providence that took care of them. Or perhaps they only formed their judgment from the omen, in Haman having been obliged to pay such honours himself to one of that nation which he had purposed, and even got the king’s edict, entirely to destroy. <span class="ital">But shalt surely fall before him — </span>This they concluded, either, 1st, By rules of policy, because Haman’s reputation and interest were sinking, and Mordecai, whom they understood to be a man of great wisdom and courage, had now got into the king’s favour, and therefore was likely to gain an opportunity of moving him to a dislike, if not revocation, of his own bloody decree, and consequently to a detestation of that person who had procured it. Or, 2d, By an instinct or impression from God upon their minds, who might suggest this to them, as he did other things to other wicked men, for his own great glory, and the good of his people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/esther/6.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>6:12-14 Mordecai was not puffed up with his honours, he returned to his place and the duty of it. Honour is well bestowed on those that do not think themselves above their business. But Haman could not bear it. What harm had it done him? But that will break a proud man's heart, which will not break a humble man's sleep. His doom was, out of this event, read to him by his wife and his friends. They plainly confessed that the Jews, though scattered through the nations, were special objects of Divine care. Miserable comforters are they all; they did not advise Haman to repent, but foretold his fate as unavoidable. The wisdom of God is seen, in timing the means of his church's deliverance, so as to manifest his own glory.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/esther/6.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>It is quite consonant with Oriental notions that Mordecai, after receiving the extraordinary honors assigned him, should return to the palace and resume his former humble employment. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/esther/6.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>11. Then Haman took, &c.—This sudden reverse, however painful to Haman as an individual, is particularly characteristic of the Persian manners.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/esther/6.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">His wise men; </span> the magicians, whom after the Persian manner he had called together to consult with upon this great and strange emergency. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews; </span> which they were told, and was generally supposed; but they were not infallibly sure of it. Thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him: this they concluded, either, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>1. By rules of policy, because Haman’s reputation and interest was hereby sinking, and Mordecai (whom they understood to be a man of great wisdom, and courage, and government of himself) was now got into the king’s favour, and thereby was likely to gain an opportunity of making his addresses to the king, who being of a mild disposition, might easily be moved to a dislike (if not revocation) of his own bloody decree, and consequently to a detestation of that person who had procured it. Or, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>2. By former experience, and the observation of God’s extraordinary actions on the behalf of the Jews, and against their enemies, in this very court and kingdom. Or, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span>3. By instinct and inspiration to their minds, either from God, who might suggest this to them, as he did other things to other wicked men, Balaam, Caiaphas, &c., for his own greater glory, and the good of his people; or from the devil, who, by God’s permission, might know this, and reveal it to them, who sought to him in their superstitious and idolatrous methods. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/esther/6.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And Haman told Zeresh his wife, and all his friends, every thing that had befallen him,.... How he was prevented speaking to the king on this errand he went; instead of which, he had the mortification of being obliged to do the honour to Mordecai which he thought would never have been given to any but himself, and so related the whole affair as above: <p>then said his wise men; before called his friends; perhaps they were magicians and soothsayers he kept in his house, to advise with about the proper methods and times of advancing himself, and destroying his enemies: <p>and Zeresh his wife unto him; who joined with the wise men in giving her opinion, and who set up for a knowing woman, and of whom Haman thought highly: <p>if Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews; as it was said he was; and therefore Haman had vowed and plotted revenge on the people of the Jews for his sake: <p>before whom thou hast begun to fall; as he did, by being obliged to execute the king's will in doing him so much honour: <p>thou shall not prevail against him; to get him hanged, or his people destroyed, though he had prepared a gallows for the one, and had got an edict for the other: <p>but shall surely fall before him: which might be concluded from his being set above him, who would not fail of using his power and interest to crush him, who had showed himself to be such an implacable enemy to him; or they might have some knowledge of the history of the Jews, and of what wonderful things God often did for them, in defeating the designs of their enemies, and in raising them up from a low to an high estate. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/esther/6.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every <i>thing</i> that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai <i>be</i> of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, <span class="cverse3">{d}</span> but shalt surely fall before him.</span><p>(d) Thus God sometimes puts in the mouth of the very wicked to speak that thing which he has decreed shall come to pass.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/esther/6.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">13</span>. <span class="ital">recounted</span>] The Heb. word indicates a more detailed account than the ‘told’ of the A.V.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">his wise men</span>] See on <a href="/esther/1-13.htm" title="Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:">Esther 1:13</a>. By these are probably meant the same as those who cast lots in <a href="/esther/3-7.htm" title="In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.">Esther 3:7</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">Mordecai, before whom</span>] the relative pronoun refers to the individual foe, and not, as in the A.V., to the Jewish nation generally.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">thou shalt not prevail against him</span>] If we are to consider Haman as a descendant of Agag (see on <a href="/esther/3-1.htm" title="After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.">Esther 3:1</a>), the writer is probably referring to the passages which indicate that Amalek’s fate is, when confronted with Israel, to be worsted in the conflict. See <a href="/exodus/17-16.htm" title="For he said, Because the LORD has sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.">Exodus 17:16</a>; <a href="/numbers/24-20.htm" title="And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.">Numbers 24:20</a>; <a href="/context/deuteronomy/25-17.htm" title="Remember what Amalek did to you by the way, when you were come forth out of Egypt;...">Deuteronomy 25:17-19</a>; 1 Samuel 15; <a href="/2_samuel/1-8.htm" title="And he said to me, Who are you? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.">2 Samuel 1:8</a> ff.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/esther/6.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 13.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">His wise men</span>. Magians, perhaps, whom he was in the habit of consulting concerning the future. On the supposed prophetic powers of the Magians see Herod., 1:107, 120; 7:19; Duris, Fr. 7, etc. <span class="cmt_word">If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews</span>. It is difficult to understand how this could any longer be regarded as doubtful. His fellow servants knew it (<a href="/esther/3-4.htm">Esther 3:4</a>); Haman knew it (<span class="accented">ibid.</span> ver. 6); Ahasuerus knew it (<span class="accented">supra</span>, ver. 10). The "wise men" profess to regard it as uncertain, perhaps to give their words a more oracular character. <span class="cmt_word">Thou shalt surely fall</span>. Rather, "thou shalt <span class="accented">utterly</span> fall." Esther 6:13<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/esther/6.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>After this honour had been paid him, Mordochai returned to the king's gate; but Haman hasted to his house, "sad and with his head covered," to relate to his wife and friends all that had befallen him. A deeper mortification he could not have experienced than that of being obliged, by the king's command, publicly to show the highest honour to the very individual whose execution he was just about to propose to him. The covering of the head is a token of deep confusion and mourning; comp. <a href="/jeremiah/14-4.htm">Jeremiah 14:4</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/15-30.htm">2 Samuel 15:30</a>. Then his wise men, and Zeresh his wife, said to him: "If Mordochai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou wilt not prevail against him, but wholly fall before him." לו תוּכל לא, non praevalebis ei, comp. <a href="/genesis/32-26.htm">Genesis 32:26</a>. תּפּול נפול with an emphatic infin. absol.: wholly fall. Instead of the חכמיו אהביו are here named, or to speak more correctly the friends of Haman are here called his wise men (magi). Even in <a href="/esther/5-14.htm">Esther 5:14</a> Haman's friends figure as those with whom he takes counsel concerning Mordochai, i.e., as his counsellors or advisers; hence it is very probable that there were magi among their number, who now "come forward as a genus sapientum et doctorum (Cicero, divin. i. 23)" (Berth.), and predict his overthrow in his contest with Mordochai. The ground of this prediction is stated: "If Mordochai is of the seed of the Jews," i.e., of Jewish descent, then after this preliminary fall a total fall is inevitable. Previously (<a href="/esther/5-14.htm">Esther 5:14</a>) they had not hesitated to advise him to hang the insignificant Jew; but now that the insignificant Jew has become, as by a miracle, a man highly honoured by the king, the fact that the Jews are under the special protection of Providence is pressed upon them. Ex fato populorum, remarks Grotius, de singulorum fatis judicabant. Judaei gravissime oppressi a Cyri temporibus contra spem omnem resurgere caeperant. We cannot, however, regard as well founded the further remark: de Amalecitis audierant oraculum esse, eos Judaeorum manu perituros, which Grotius, with most older expositors, derives from the Amalekite origin of Haman. 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