Esther 7:9

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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

While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

He lifted up his face to the window, and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.

Behold

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by. A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Who had spoken

In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate, two of the king's eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

Hang him thereon

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

General references

A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.