Esther 7
7
Haman Is Executed
1The king and Haman came to feast#7:1 Lit drink#Gn 40:20 with Esther the queen. 2Once again, on the second day while drinking wine,#Est 5:6 the king asked Esther, “Queen Esther, whatever you ask will be given to you. Whatever you seek, even to half the kingdom, will be done.”#Est 5:3,6
3Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if the king is pleased,#Est 2:17; 5:8 spare my life; this is my request. And spare my people; this is my desire.#Est 4:12–14 4For my people and I have been sold#Est 3:9,13; 4:7 to destruction, death, and annihilation.#Est 3:13; 8:11; 9:5–10 If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves,#Dt 28:48,68 I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.”
5King Ahasuerus spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?” #7:5 Lit who would fill his heart to do this#Est 3:5–6,8–9
6Esther answered, “The adversary and enemy#Est 3:10 is this evil Haman.”
Haman stood terrified#Est 4:4 before the king and queen. 7The king arose in anger#Est 1:12; Pr 20:2 and went from where they were drinking wine to the palace garden.#7:7 Lit the garden of the house, also in v. 8#Est 1:5–6 Haman remained to beg Queen Esther for his life because he realized the king was planning something terrible for him.#Est 6:13 8Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall,#7:8 Or the house of wine Haman was falling on the couch#Est 1:6 where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually violate the queen while I am in the house?” As soon as the statement left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.#Est 6:12; Jb 9:24
9Harbona, one of the king’s eunuchs,#Est 1:12 said, “There is a gallows seventy-five feet#7:9 Lit 50 cubits tall at Haman’s house that he made for Mordecai,#Est 5:14 who gave the report that saved#7:9 Lit who spoke good for the king.”#Est 2:21–23; 6:1–2
The king said, “Hang him on it.”
10They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.#Est 5:14; Ps 7:16; 94:23; Pr 11:5,6; Dn 6:24 Then the king’s anger subsided.#Est 1:12; 2:1
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