Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Study Helps
Interpretation
This account of Haman is a comment upon Pr 21:24. Self-admirers and self-flatterers are really self-deceivers.
Glossary
- Mordecai Tribe
- The son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Zeresh Person
- Star of Venus, the wife of Haman, whom she instigated to prepare a gallows for Mordecai ( Esther 5:10 ).