Esther 7:4-10

4 for ¹we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, ²to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves *, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the trouble would not be commensurate with the annoyance to the king."

5 Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who would presume * to do thus?"

6 Esther said, "³A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!" Then Haman became terrified before * the king and queen.

Haman Is Hanged

7 The king arose ⁴in his anger from drinking wine and went into ⁵the palace garden; but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm had been determined against him by the king.

8 Now when the king returned from the palace garden into the place where they were drinking wine, Haman was falling on ⁶the couch where * Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he even assault the queen with me in the house?" As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

9 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were before the king said, "Behold indeed, ⁷the gallows standing at Haman's house fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai ⁸who spoke good on behalf of the king!" And the king said, "Hang him on it."

10 ⁹So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, ¹⁰and the king's anger subsided.

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Esther 7:4-10 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

Cross References 10

1. Esther 3:9
2. Esther 3:13
3. Esther 3:10
4. Esther 1:12
5. Esther 1:5
6. Esther 1:6
7. Esther 5:14
8. Esther 2:22
9. Psalms 7:16; Psalms 94:23
10. Esther 7:7, 8

Footnotes 7

[a]. Or "enemy could not compensate for the loss"
[b]. Or "damage"
[c]. Lit "said and said to"
[d]. Lit "whose heart has been filled"
[e]. Lit "the banquet of wine"
[f]. Lit "house of the banquet of wine"
[g]. Lit "tree"