Esther 7:1
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther, the queen, the drinking after the feast being regarded as the most important part of the entertainment.... [ Continue Reading ]
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther, the queen, the drinking after the feast being regarded as the most important part of the entertainment.... [ Continue Reading ]
ESTHER PLEADS FOR HER PEOPLE... [ Continue Reading ]
And the king, being more anxious even than on the day before to find out Esther's request, SAID AGAIN UNTO ESTHER ON THE SECOND DAY AT THE BANQUET OF WINE, repeating his promise in practically the same words, WHAT IS THY PETITION, QUEEN ESTHER? AND IT SHALL BE GRANTED THEE; AND WHAT IS THY REQUEST?... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Esther, the queen, all her pent-up emotions breaking forth with a sudden rush of words, answered and said, IF I HAVE FOUND FAVOR IN THY SIGHT, O KING, AND IF IT PLEASE THE KING, LET MY LIFE BE GIVEN ME AT MY PETITION AND MY PEOPLE AT MY REQUEST; she pleaded with the king that her own life and t... [ Continue Reading ]
for we are sold, I and my people, a very fitting expression, since Haman had paid a large sum of money into the royal treasury to bring about the extermination of the Jews, TO BE DESTROYED, TO BE SLAIN, AND TO PERISH, the heaping of the words showing the depth of her own emotions, and being intended... [ Continue Reading ]
Then the King Ahasuerus, filled with the greatest agitation on account of the condition revealed by Esther's words, ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO ESTHER, THE QUEEN, WHO IS HE, AND WHERE IS HE, THAT DURST PRESUME IN HIS HEART TO DO SO? literally, "Who has filled his heart to do so?" For it must have been a... [ Continue Reading ]
And Esther, now fully sure of her ground, SAID, THE ADVERSARY AND ENEMY IS THIS WICKED HAMAN. It was a moment of most dramatic intensity when Esther thus denounced the man who was filled with such enmity toward the Jews. THEN HAMAN WAS AFRAID, he trembled for fear, BEFORE THE KING AND THE QUEEN, for... [ Continue Reading ]
And the king, arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath, went into the palace garden, for he was so filled with agitation that he must needs take a turn in the royal park. AND HAMAN STOOD UP TO MAKE REQUEST FOR HIS LIFE TO ESTHER, THE QUEEN, for he realized that this was his one chance of salvat... [ Continue Reading ]
HAMAN HANGED ON HIS OWN GALLOWS... [ Continue Reading ]
Then the king returned out of the palace garden, where he had gone to recover from the first burst of anger, INTO THE PLACE OF THE BANQUET OF WINE; AND HAMAN WAS FALLEN UPON THE BED WHEREON ESTHER WAS. In his importunate pleading for his life he had kneeled down before Esther and had then fallen for... [ Continue Reading ]
And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, in revealing the plot against the king's life, STANDETH IN THE HOUSE OF OF HAMAN. His words suggested, of course, that it was... [ Continue Reading ]
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai, his feet thus being taken in the net which he had hidden for another, Psalms 9:15. THEN WAS THE KING'S WRATH PACIFIED. That is the final fate of the enemies of the Church, a dreadful and terrible end, in the depths of shame and d... [ Continue Reading ]