Esther 7:10
So they impaled Haman on the pole that he had set up for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king died down.
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Judges 15:7Samson told them, “If this is the way you're going to act, then I won't stop until I take my revenge on you!”
Esther 8:7King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Notice that I have given Haman's estate to Esther, and he was impaled on a pole because he wanted to kill the Jews.
Esther 9:25But when it came to the king's attention, he sent out letters ordering that the evil scheme which Haman had planned against the Jews should rebound on him, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles.
Job 20:8They will vanish like a dream, never to be found, fleeing like a vision of the night.
Psalms 37:15But the swords of the wicked will slice through their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.
Proverbs 26:27Those who dig pits to trap others will fall in themselves, and those who start boulders rolling will be crushed themselves.
Matthew Henry on Esther 7:8-10
The King Incensed Against Haman; Haman Hanged upon His Own Gallows. ( b. c. 510.) 7 And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. 8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the… Read the whole commentary →