Esther 7:5-10

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

6 Esther said, "¹A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!" Then Haman became terrified before * the king and queen.

Haman Is Hanged

7 The king arose ²in his anger from drinking wine and went into ³the 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 ⁴the 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, ⁵the gallows standing at Haman's house fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai ⁶who spoke good on behalf of the king!" And the king said, "Hang him on it."

10 ⁷So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, ⁸and the king's anger subsided.

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Esther 7:5-10 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 8

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

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "said and said to"
[b]. Lit "whose heart has been filled"
[c]. Lit "the banquet of wine"
[d]. Lit "house of the banquet of wine"
[e]. Lit "tree"