Esther 6:13

Staten Vertaling

En Haman vertelde aan zijn huisvrouw Zeres en al zijn vrienden al wat hem wedervaren was. Toen zeiden hem zijn wijzen, en Zeres, zijn huisvrouw: Indien Mordechai, voor wiens aangezicht gij hebt begonnen te vallen, van het zaad der Joden is, zo zult gij tegen hem niet vermogen; maar gij zult gewisselijk voor zijn aangezicht vallen.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
en hij verhaalde aan zijne huisvrouw Zeres en aan al zijne vrienden alles wat hem wedervaren was. Toen spraken zijne wijzen en zijne huisvrouw Zeres tot hem: Indien Mordechai, voor wien gij zijt begonnen te vallen, van het zaad der Joden is, zo vermoogt gij niets tegen hem, maar gij zult voor hem vallen.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Hij verhaalde alwat hem wedervaren was aan zijn vrouw Zeres en al zijn vrienden; waarop zijn wijzen en zijn vrouw Zeres tot hem zeiden: Indien die Mordochai, voor wien gij nu aanvankelijk reeds gevallen zijt, uit het geslacht der Joden is, zult gij niet tegen hem opgewassen zijn, maar zeker geheel voor hem vallen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Zeresh: Esther 5:10-14

said his wise: Genesis 41:8, Daniel 2:12

If Mordecai: Genesis 40:19, 1 Samuel 28:19, 1 Samuel 28:20, Job 15:24, Daniel 5:26-28, Zechariah 12:2, Zechariah 12:3

but shalt surely: Job 16:2, Proverbs 28:18, Hosea 14:9

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:1 - David waxed 2 Samuel 13:3 - a friend 1 Kings 13:21 - Thus saith 1 Kings 20:43 - went Job 18:8 - he is cast Psalms 129:5 - be confounded

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 to proceed from the mouth of heathens, such as these were.