Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath assuaged.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Judges 15:7And Samson said unto them: 'If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.'
Esther 8:7Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew: 'Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
Esther 9:25but when she came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head; and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Job 20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Psalms 37:15Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Proverbs 26:27Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.
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 →