Before whom thou hast begun to fall.
Descent easy
The ascent to honour and greatness is steep, and those who aspire after them must climb it slowly, and with difficulty; but the descent is easy, and so precipitous, that when they lose their footing they fall in minutes what they rose in years. (T. McCrie, D. D.).
Verse Esther 6:13. _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...
THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT AND MORDECAI'S EXALTATION CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The sleepless night (Esther 6:1)_ 2. The exaltation of Mordecai (Esther 6:4) 3. Haman anticipates his doom (Esther 6:12)...
ESTHER 6. HAMAN IS COMPELLED TO DO PUBLIC HONOUR TO MORDEEAI. Now comes a dramatic scene. Providence is at work, and the clouds are opening. In the night between Esther's two drinking-feasts, the king...
ZERESH. See note on Esther 5:14....
THEN SAID HIS WISE MEN, &C.— As Mordecai had declared himself a Jew, to satisfy the people at court that he could not with a good conscience comply with the king's command relating to the reverence wh...
C. Abasement TEXT: Esther 6:10-14 10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's g...
_AND MORDECAI CAME AGAIN TO THE KING'S GATE. BUT HAMAN HASTED TO HIS HOUSE MOURNING, AND HAVING HIS HEAD COVERED._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
MORDECAI IS HONOURED An account of how the king being reminded of Mordecai's services, and wishing to reward him, consulted Haman, and how Haman, thinking himself the object of the king's interest, c...
IF MORDECAI.. FALL BEFORE HIM] LXX adds, 'for the Living God is with him.'...
GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 6 V1 That night the king could not sleep. He ordered that someone should bring the book of the official records of his rule. He ordered tha...
TOLD. — The same word as on a former occasion. Esther 5:11. 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 disappointmen...
וַ יְסַפֵּ֨ר הָמָ֜ן לְ זֶ֤רֶשׁ אִשְׁתֹּו֙ וּ
GRATITUDE FOR A FORGOTTEN SERVICE Esther 6:1 There was a divine providence in this royal sleeplessness. On the very next night Haman would be hanging on the gallows, and it would be too late for him...
In the economy of God vast issues follow apparently trivial things. A sleepless night is in itself transient and almost trivial. Yet it has often been a time of revelation and surprise, affecting the...
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 unto him, If Mordecai [be] of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou...
_Wise men. Probably the magi, who concluded, from the first miscarriage, that he undertaking would prove abortive, (Calmet) as they were also informed of God's protection given repeatedly to the Jews....
(13) And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou...
Sleepless Nights A man's definition of childish games = the ones at which your wife beats you! A young girl said to her pastor, "I'm afraid I've committed the sin of vanity." To which the pastor rep...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 10. The Book of Nehemiah has shewn us Judah reinstated in the land, but deprived of the presence of God, except as to general blessing, and unacknow...
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...
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 unto him, If Mordecai [be] of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou...
_Then said his wise men_ The magicians, whom, after the Persian manner, he had called together, to consult upon this strange emergency. _If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews_ Which they were told, a...
MORDECAI HONORED...
And Haman told Zeresh, his wife, and all his friends, the men who usually hover about a powerful person while he is in the good graces of the sovereign, EVERYTHING THAT HAD BEFALLEN HIM, the report di...
The same night that Haman had had a gallows made on which to hang Mordecai, the Lord intervened in a most amazing way, causing the king to be unable to sleep and moving him to have the book of records...
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...
HIS WISE MEN; the magicians, whom after the Persian manner he had called together to consult with upon this great and strange emergency. IF MORDECAI BE OF THE SEED OF THE JEWS; which they were told, a...
Esther 6:13 Haman H2001 told H5608 (H8762) wife H802 Zeresh H2238 friends H157 (H8802) happened H7136 ...
CONTENTS: Haman compelled to exalt Mordecai. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Esther, Haman, Mordecai, Zeresh. CONCLUSION: God's wisdom and grace is seen in the way He times the means of deliverance for His p...
Esther 6:1. _That night could not the king sleep,_ the reveries of his mind being excited by guardian angels. See on Psalms 34:7. The LXX read, “But the Lord moved the king that night by dreams.” RE...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 6:13 IF MORDECAI... IS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, YOU... WILL SURELY FALL BEFORE HIM. Even Haman’s wife and advisers sense that an irresistible power or person protects the Jewish peo...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 6:12.] It is quite consonant with Oriental notions that Mordecai, after receiving the extraordinary honours assigned him, should return to the palace and resume his former humb...
EXPOSITION AHASUERUS, BEING WAKEFUL DURING THE NIGHT, HAS THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES READ TO HIM, AND FINDS THAT MORDECAI HAS...
Now that night king Ahasuerus couldn't go to sleep (Esther 6:1), He's lying there restless. No doubt God was in the restlessness. And so he said, bring to me the chronicles [the history]; read to me...
1 Samuel 28:19; 1 Samuel 28:20; Daniel 2:12; Daniel 5:26; Esther 5:1
Wise men — The magicians, whom after the Persian manner he had called together to consult upon this strange emergency....