Esther 9:25

25 But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing ¹that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews ²should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.^[a]

Esther 9:25 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 9:25

But when Esther came before the king
To request of him her life, and the life of her people:

he commanded by letters, that his wicked device, which he devised
against the Jews, should return upon his own head;
that whereas his wicked scheme was to destroy all the Jews, the king, by his second letter, gave orders that the Jews should have liberty to defend themselves, and destroy their enemies which rose up against them; and the friends and party of Haman were entirely cut off:

and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows;
which he had prepared for Mordecai; not that they were ordered to be hanged together, nor were they; Haman was hanged before on the twenty third day of the month, but his sons not till the fourteenth day of the twelfth month; ( Esther 7:10 ) ( 8:9 ) ( Esther 9:13 Esther 9:14 ) .

Esther 9:25 In-Context

23 So the Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.

24 For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.

25 But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

26 Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them,

27 the Jews firmly obligated themselves and their offspring and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,

Cross References

• 1. Esther 7:9, 10; Esther 8:3, 7
• 2. [Psalms 7:16]

Footnotes

• [a]. Or suspended on a stake