Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

In Context

9Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.

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Cross References

Judges 15:7And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”

Esther 8:7So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.

Esther 9:25But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Psalms 37:15But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

Proverbs 26:27He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on 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 →

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