Esther 7:9

_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, STANDETH IN THE HOUSE OF HAMAN. THEN THE KING SAID, HANG HIM THEREON._ Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows, х_ HINEEH_ (H2009) _ HAA`EETS_ (H6086)] - behold the tree. This eunuch had probably been the messenger sent with the invitation to Haman, and on that occasion had seen the gallows. The information he now volunteered, as well, it may be from abhorrence of Haman's cold-blooded conspiracy as from sympathy with his amiable mistress, involved with her people in imminent peril....

7-10 The king was angry: those that do things with self-will, reflect upon them afterward with self-reproach. When angry, we should pause before we come to any resolution, and thus rule our own spirits, and show that we are governed by reason. Those that are most haughty and insolent when in power and prosperity, commonly, like Haman, are the most abject and poor-spirited when brought down. The day is coming when those that hate and persecute God's chosen ones, would gladly be beholden to them. The king returns yet more angry against Haman. Those about him were ready to put his wrath into execution. How little can proud men be sure of the interest they think they have! The enemies of God's church have often been thus taken in their own craftiness. The Lord is known by such judgments. Then was the king's wrath pacified, and not till then. And who pities Haman hanged on his own gallows? w...

Verse Esther 7:9. _BEHOLD ALSO, THE GALLOWS_] As if he had said, Besides all he has determined to do to the Jews, he has erected a very high gallows, on which he had determined, this very day, to hang Mordecai, who has saved the king's life. _HANG HIM THEREON._] Let him be instantly impaled on the same post. "Harm watch, harm catch," says the proverb. _Perillus_ was the first person burnt alive in the brazen bull which he had made for the punishment of _others_; hence the poet said: - ____ _Nec lex est justior ulla,_ _Quam necis artifices arte perire sua._ "Nor can there be a juster law than that the artificers of death should perish by their own invention....

EXPOSITION AT THE SECOND BANQUET ESTHER DENOUNCES HAMAN, AND THE KING CONDEMNS HIM TO BE IMPALED ON THE CROSS PREPARED FOR HAMAN (Esther 7:1). Esther had promised to make her true petition at the second banquet (Esther 5:12), and now kept her word. When the king for the third time put the question, "What is thy petition, queen Esther? and what is thy request? It shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom_,_"_ _she opened all

AND HARBONAH, ONE OF THE CHAMBERLAINS, SAID BEFORE THE KING,.... One of the seven chamberlains, see Esther 1:10, his name, with Josephus y, is Sabouchadas. BEHOLD ALSO, THE GALLOWS FIFTY CUBITS HIGH, WHICH HAMAN HAD MADE FOR MORDECAI, WHO HAD SPOKEN GOOD FOR THE KING, STANDETH IN THE HOUSE OF HAMAN. This man, perhaps, had seen it there, when he went with others to fetch Haman to the banquet, Esther 6:14. The sin of Haman is aggravated by preparing a gallows for a man before he was accused to the king, or condemned, or had a grant for his execution, and for a man that had well deserved of the king for discovering a conspiracy against him, and whom now the king had delighted to honour: THEN THE KING SAID, HANG HIM THEREON; immediately, being ready prepared, the king's word wa

THE SECOND BANQUET AND HAMAN'S MISERABLE END CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The second banquet and Esther's petition (Esther 7:1)_ 2. Haman's exposure (Esther 7:5) 3. Haman's miserable end (Esther 7:7) Esther 7:1. Esther at this second feast knew that the God of her fathers was at work and that all the hatred against her race came not from the heart of the king, but centered in Haman. In the events of the sleepless night and what followed she must have seen the display of the hand of God. And now she utters her delayed petition. Her petition is that her life may be spared as well as her people. How astonished the king must have look

ESTHER 7. ESTHER ACCUSES HAMAN, AND HE IS HANGED ON THE GIBBET HE HAD PREPARED FOR MORDECAI. On the same day, at her second drinking-feast, Esther suddenly bursts out in impassioned denunciation of Haman (Esther 7:6), and in cries for help from his murderous intent against her and ail she loves. A passage here (Esther 7:3 f.) has fretted students, but it is simple when simply translated. We are sold, cries Esther, I and my race, to death and utter ruin! Would that it had been for slaves and handmaids we were sold! Then had I been silent. But in our adversary there is lacking everything that will equal the king's loss. She means that slaves sold bring in cash, but murdered subjects bring none. The king's eyes are opened: in his rage at Haman he can scarce restrain himself. When the wretched Haman, in his terror, appeals

GALLOWS. See note on Esther 5:14....

B. Minister Doomed TEXT: Esther 7:7-10 7 And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. 8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. 9 Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him thereon. 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he ha

THE EXECUTION OF HAMAN 4. We are sold] an allusion to Haman's tender of 10,000 talents (href='190 3:9'>Est 3:9). ALTHOUGH THE ENEMY, etc.] The rendering is uncertain; RV 'although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage' (which would have resulted from the loss of so many of his subjects); RM 'for our affliction is not to be compared with the king's damage' (or 'annoyance' occasioned by Esther's complaint). Perhaps, 'although no enemy is comparable (to Haman) in doing damage to the king.'...