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Esther 7:3-10

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3 Then Queen Esther answered, 1“If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request.
4 2For we have been sold, I and my people, 3to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king. ”
5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared[a] to do this? ”
6 And Esther said, 4“A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman! ” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

Haman Is Hanged

7 And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into 5the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king.
8 And the king returned from 6the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on 7the couch where Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house? ” As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman’s face.
9 Then 8Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, 9the gallows[b] that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, 10whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman’s house, fifty cubits[c] high. ”
10 And the king said, “Hang him on that. ” 11So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. 12Then the wrath of the king abated.
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Esther 7:3-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ESTHER 7

Esther, being solicited by the king to tell him her petition, asks for her life and the lives of her people, who were sold to be destroyed, Es 7:1-4, the king, amazed at her request, inquires who was the person that dared to do so vile a thing; and was told by her it was Haman there present, Es 7:5,6 on which the king went out into the garden in wrath, and, returning, found Haman on Esther's bed, which still more incensed him; and being told that Haman had prepared a gallows for Mordecai, the king ordered that he himself should be hanged upon it, which was done accordingly, Es 7:7-10.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 12

  • 1. 7:3 ch. 5:8
  • 2. 7:4 ch. 3:9; 4:7
  • 3. 7:4 ch. 3:13; 8:11
  • 4. 7:6 See ch. 3:10
  • 5. 7:7 ch. 1:5
  • 6. 7:8 [See ver. 7 above]
  • 7. 7:8 [ch. 1:6]
  • 8. 7:9 ch. 1:10
  • 9. 7:9 See ch. 5:14
  • 10. 7:9 [ch. 2:22]
  • 11. 7:10 [Ps. 7:16; Prov. 11:5, 6; Dan. 6:24]
  • 12. 7:10 [ch. 2:1]

Footnotes 3

  • [a] 7:5 Hebrew 'whose heart has filled him'
  • [b] 7:9 Or 'stake'; also verse 10
  • [c] 7:9 A 'cubit' was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®) © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2025

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