Esther 7:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.

One of the chamberlains

Esther 6:14

2 Kings 9:32

Behold

Who had spoken

Esther 2:21

Esther 6:2

Hang him thereon

General references

Proverbs 11:8

Bible References

One of the chamberlains

And while they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs came in haste to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

And he lifted up his face to the window and said, Who is on my side? Who? And two or three eunuchs looked at him.

Behold

Then said Zeresh, his wife, and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged upon it; then go in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman, and he caused the gallows to be made.

Terrors shall take hold on him as waters; a whirlwind shall carry him away in the night.

He made a pit and deepened it and shall fall into the ditch which he made.

Let destruction come upon him at unawares, and let his net that he has hid catch himself; into that very destruction let him fall.

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, whilst I pass on ahead forever.

The righteousness of the perfect shall straighten his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Who had spoken

In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth and sought to lay hand on King Ahasuerus.

And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, the keepers of the door, who had sought to lay hand on King Ahasuerus.

Hang him thereon

but when she came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Therefore David ran and stood upon the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and slew him and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw their giant was dead, they fled.

He made a pit and deepened it and shall fall into the ditch which he made.

The Gentiles are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid their own foot is taken.

Let destruction come upon him at unawares, and let his net that he has hid catch himself; into that very destruction let him fall.

Resh I have seen the wicked in great power and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They have come to an end; they are utterly consumed with terrors.

The righteousness of the perfect shall straighten his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

All the presidents of the kingdom, magistrates, governors, great ones, and captains have agreed in common accord to promote a royal decree and to confirm it that whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, except of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

General references

The righteous is delivered out of the tribulation, and the wicked takes his place.