Esther 7:10
And they hang Haman on the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king has lain down.
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Judges 15:7And Samson says to them, “Though you do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterward I cease!”
Esther 8:7And King Ahasuerus says to Esther the queen, and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, the house of Haman I have given to Esther, and him they have hanged on the tree, because that he put forth his hand on the Jews,
Esther 9:25and in her coming in before the king, he commanded with the letter, “Let his evil scheme that he devised against the Jews return on his own head,” and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,
Job 20:8He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, || And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
Psalms 37:15Their sword enters into their own heart, || And their bows are shattered.
Proverbs 26:27Whoever is digging a pit falls into it, || And the roller of a stone, it turns to 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 →