Esther 7:8

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Esther 7:1-10

Events now moved rapidly forward. By the way of the banquet Haman passed to the gallows. It was a fierce and terrible judgment, and yet characterized by poetic justice. The man who for no reason other than his pride had prepared the gallows for Mordecai found himself suddenly stripped of all authority and ending his career by the very instrument his brutality had prepared for another. The very core of Haman's hatred for Mordecai was his own self-centered and self-consuming pride and ambition.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Esther 7:1-10

Esther 7. Esther Accuses Haman, and he is Hanged on the Gibbet he had Prepared for Mordecai.— On the same day, at her second drinking-feast, Esther suddenly bursts out in impassioned denunciation of Haman ( Esther 7:6), and in cries for help from his murderous intent against her and ail she loves. A passage here ( Esther 7:3 f.) has fretted students, but it is simple when simply translated. “ We are sold,” cries Esther, “ I and my race, to death and utter ruin! Would that it had been for... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Esther 7:8

Upon the bed; or, by or beside the bed; on which the queen sat at meat, after the manner; where he was fallen upon his knees, and upon the ground, at her feet, as humble suppliants used to do, and as the queen did at the king’s feet, Esther 8:3. Will he force the queen also? will he now attempt my queen’s chastity, as he hath already attempted her life? His presumption and impudence I see will stick at nothing. He speaks not this out of a real jealousy, for which there was no cause in those... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Esther 7:7-10

CRITICAL NOTES.] Esther 7:7.] The king went into the palace garden in order to recover from the first burst of anger, and to consider what was to be done with Haman. He stood up and besought Esther to shield him from the king’s fury. Esther 7:8. Haman was fallen upon the bed] In the wild emotion and alarm of the moment he had thrown himself upon the couch or divan on which Esther reclined at the banquet, and was supplicating for his life. Will he force the queen] Of course the king did not... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Esther 7:1-10

Chapter 7So Haman came in, but he was really troubled by this whole experience. And so, Esther prepared another beautiful banquet for the king, and again, the king in his generous mood said, "Esther, what do you want? Half of the kingdom, whatever it is. Your petition, your request."And so Esther said, All I want is my life and my people [the life of my people]: For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold as slaves, I wouldn't... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:1-10

Esther 7:4 . The king’s damage, in the loss of subjects and of revenue. Esther 7:8 . They covered Haman’s face; an indignity done only to persons condemned to die. Esther 7:9 . Hang him thereon. The LXX read, “crucify him.” REFLECTIONS. We come now to the instructive close of this tragedy. It was, if we may consult the feelings of human nature, no small calamity, that while Haman was overwhelmed with mortifications, and assailed with desponding predictions from his friends, the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Esther 7:7-10

Esther 7:7-10And the king, arising from the banquet.Unexpected resultsMan’s calculation is always upon the result of his own forethought and skill. There is to be a sure success from the wisdom of his plans. The race is for the swift and the battle is for the strong. Napoleon said, “Heaven is always on the side of the heaviest artillery.” The history of human contests would give innumerable illustrations of the contrary. God vindicates His own right to rule by employing the weak things of the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Esther 7:8

Est 7:8 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 house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face. Ver. 8. Then the king returned out of the palace garden ] Where he had either increased his choler, and cast on more fuel by plodding, or, as some think, strove to digest it, as horses do by biting on the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Esther 7:8

the bed: Esther 1:6, Isaiah 49:23 before me: Heb. with me they covered Haman's: When a criminal was condemned by a Roman judge, he was delivered to the serjeant with these words: I, lictor, caput obnubito arbori infelici suspendito, "Go, sergeant, cover his head, and hang him on the accursed tree." Esther 6:12, Job 9:24, Isaiah 22:17 Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 13:14 - forced her Job 40:13 - bind Proverbs 10:6 - violence Proverbs 14:19 - General Proverbs 19:12 - king's Amos 6:7 - and the read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Esther 7:8

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 house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.Bed — On which the queen sat at meat.Force — Will he attempt my queen's chastity, as he hath already attempted her life! He speaks not this out of real jealousy, but from an exasperated mind, which takes all... read more

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