Esther 7
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Haman, meanwhile, fell on the couch where Esther was sitting in order to beg for her mercy.
8–10 When the king returned, it appeared to him that Haman was trying to molest his wife! That sealed Haman’s fate. One of the king’s servants informed him that Haman had just built a gallows on which he had planned to hang Mordecai that very morning. But on the king’s order, Haman was hanged there instead! (see Proverbs 11:8).
Perhaps by this time Xerxes realized that the people Haman wanted to destroy were the Jews. That meant Esther was a Jew also. The writer gives no indication that Xerxes was troubled by this discovery.
Neither is there any indication that Esther knew about Mordecai’s triumph earlier that same day. Like Xerxes, she must have been amazed at the way things turned out.