03-24-2024, 04:47 PM
Thank you for this question, it's very interesting to think about.
It is strange. Zeresh didn't know yet that the queen was also Jewish and that this was a threat to their plan to hang Mordecai.
When I read it, it feels like Zeresh was a weak and/or unfaithful woman. She first wants to please her husband and suggests that Mordecai be hanged. Then, when she saw that Mordechai was honoured by the king, she was afraid and stopped supporting her husband. Instead she agreed with the wise men and doubted that the gallow would succeed.
Or she was prophesying, or there was a hint of Deuteronomy 11:25.
It is strange. Zeresh didn't know yet that the queen was also Jewish and that this was a threat to their plan to hang Mordecai.
When I read it, it feels like Zeresh was a weak and/or unfaithful woman. She first wants to please her husband and suggests that Mordecai be hanged. Then, when she saw that Mordechai was honoured by the king, she was afraid and stopped supporting her husband. Instead she agreed with the wise men and doubted that the gallow would succeed.
Or she was prophesying, or there was a hint of Deuteronomy 11:25.