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Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai,—and, the wrath of the king, was appeased.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 said Harbonah—one of the eunuchs before the king—Yea lo! the gallows that Haman made ready for Mordecai, who had spoken well for the king, is standing in Haman’s house, of a height of fifty cubits. Then said the king, Hang him thereon.

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Cross References

Judges 15:7And Samson said to them, Though ye do the like of this, yet will I be avenged upon you, and, afterwards, will I cease.

Esther 8:7Then said King Ahasuerus unto Esther the queen, and unto Mordecai the Jew,—Lo! the house of Haman, have I given unto Esther, and, him, have they hanged upon the gallows, because he thrust forth his hand against the Jews.

Esther 9:25but, by [Esther’s] going in before the king, he commanded by letter, that his wicked plot which he had plotted against the Jews, should return, upon his own head,—and that he and his sons should be hanged upon the gallows.

Job 20:8Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night.

Psalms 37:15Their sword, shall enter into their own heart, and, their bow, shall be broken.

Proverbs 26:27He that diggeth a pit, thereinto, shall fall, and, he that rolleth a stone, upon himself, shall it return.

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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