Esther 7

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 7:9-10

The oppressed avenged. This was indeed the hand—as the heathen would have said, of Nemesis—as we Christians say, of a righteous God and Ruler. Upon the tree erected for the impalement of Mordecai, the cruel, bloodthirsty conspirator Haman was sentenced himself to die. "The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make whips to scourge us." I. OFTEN WE OBSERVE , FOR A WHILE , INNOCENCE SUFFERING AND THREATENED , AND SIN POWERFUL , INSOLENT , AND TRIUMPHANT ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 7:10

Wrath pacified. Ahasuerus, unlike Jonah, "did well to be angry." Haman had plotted against the life of his favourite queen, and one of his most serviceable friends, and against an unoffending community. And he had all but usurped the royal authority in causing the gallows to be reared on which be intended that Mordecai should be put to death. A righteous anger led to what would have been deemed in him, an arbitrary sovereign, a just act of retribution. And only when the judicial sentence... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 7:10

The terrible consummation of a wicked life. Our first impulse on reading these words is to praise Ahasuerus for his faithful administration of justice; for if ever a man deserved summary vengeance at the hands of the law, it was Haman. But a little reflection must correct our judgment. The whole transaction reveals the fickle, passionate, unscrupulous disposition of the tyrant. Without any apparent reason, or at least without any regard to his merits, he had made a special favourite of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Esther 7:4

The king now learned, perhaps for the first time, that his favorite was a Jewess.Although the enemy ... - i. e. “although the enemy (Haman) would not (even in that case) compensate (by his payment to the treasury) for the king’s loss of so many subjects.” read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Esther 7:8

Like the Greeks and Romans, the Persians reclined at their meals on sofas or couches. Haman, in the intensity of his supplication, had thrown himself upon the couch at Esther’s feet.They covered Haman’s face - The Macedonians and the Romans are known to have commonly muffled the heads of prisoners before executing them. It may have also been a Persian custom. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7

A.M. 3494. B.C. 510. Esther petitions for her life, and the lives of her people, Esther 7:1-4 . She tells the king that Haman is the man who designed her ruin, Esther 7:5 , Esther 7:6 . By the king’s order he is hanged on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai, Esther 7:7-10 . NOTES ON CHAPTER 7. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:2

Esther 7:2. The king said again to Esther, What is thy petition, Queen Esther? &c. If the king had now forgot that Esther had an errand to him, and had not again asked what it was, she could scarce have known how to renew it herself; but he was mindful of it, and now was bound with the three-fold cord of a promise, thrice made, to favour her. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:3

Esther 7:3. Then Esther the queen answered and said, &c. Esther, at length, surprises the king with a petition, not for wealth, or honour, or the preferment of some of her friends to some high post, which the king expected, but for the preservation of herself and her countrymen from death and destruction. O king, let my life be given me at my petition It is my humble and only request, that thou wouldst not give me up to the malice of that man that designs to take away my life, and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:4

Esther 7:4. For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, &c. By the cruelty of that man, who offered a great sum to purchase our destruction. We have not forfeited our lives by any offence against the government, but are sold to gratify the pride and revenge of one man. If we had been sold for bond-men and bond-women Sold merely into slavery; I had held my tongue I would not have complained, for in time we might have been ransomed and delivered. But it is not our liberty only,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:5

Esther 7:5. Then the king said, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so? What! contrive the murder of the queen and all her friends? Is there such a man, or such a monster, rather, in nature? The expressions are short and doubled, as proceeding from a discomposed and enraged mind. The Hebrew is, Whose heart has filled him, as in the margin; or, Who hath filled his heart, to do so? He wonders that any one should be so wicked as to conceive such a thing, or... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 7:9-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 7:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 7:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Esther 7:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Esther 7:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:5

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