Esther 7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:6

Esther 7:6. Esther said, The enemy is this wicked Haman It is he that has designed our murder, and I charge him with it before his face: here he is; let him speak for himself, for therefore he was invited. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen It was time for him to fear, when the queen was his prosecutor, the king his judge, and his own conscience a witness against him; and the surprising operations of providence against him that same morning could not but increase his... read more

Joseph Benson

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

Esther 7:7. And the king arising from the banquet in his wrath As disdaining the company and sight of so ungrateful and audacious a person; went into the palace-garden To cool and allay his troubled and inflamed spirits, being in a great commotion by a variety of passions boiling and struggling within him; and to consider with himself the heinousness of Haman’s crime, the mischief which himself had like to have done by his own rashness, and what punishment was fit to be inflicted on so... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:8

Esther 7:8. Then the king returned out of the palace garden Yet more exasperated than when he went into it. The more he thought of Haman’s conduct, the more enraged he was against him. Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was Or by, or beside the bed, on which the queen sat at meat, after the manner of those times and countries. For it was then a custom among the Persians, as well as many other nations, to sit, or rather lie, upon beds, when they ate or drank. And Haman, it... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:9

Esther 7:9. And Harbonah said The courtiers that adored Haman when he was rising, set themselves as much against him now he is falling, and are glad of an opportunity to sink him lower: so little sure can proud men be of the interest they think they have in others. Behold also the gallows, &c., standeth in the house of Haman He had probably observed it, or been informed of it by some of his brethren, who were lately sent to Haman’s house: and this he said, either out of a dislike he... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:10

Esther 7:10. So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai As the sentence was short, so the execution was speedy, and he that expected every one to do him reverence is now made an ignominious spectacle to the world on a gallows fifty cubits high: and himself is sacrificed to justice, who disdained that less than a whole nation should be sacrificed to his revenge. Thus does God resist the proud, and those whom he resists will find him irresistible! Thus did mischief... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Esther 7:1-10

Haman’s humiliation and defeat (5:1-7:10)After three days Esther approached the king and invited him and Haman to dinner (5:1-4). She was so pleased with their friendly response that she decided to invite them again the next day, in the hope that they would be even more favourable to her (5-8). Haman thought that the honour given him by the queen showed that she, as well as the king, was pleased with him and agreed with his anti-Jewish policy. He decided to take the opportunity of this royal... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Esther 7:2

petition . . . request. See note on Esther 5:6 . kingdom. See note on Esther 5:3 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Esther 7:3

my life = my soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13 . Life put before petition, and her People put before her request. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Esther 7:4

are = have been. sold. Implying that a bargain had been made. destroyed . . . slain . . . perish. Note the Figure of speech Synonymia ( App-6 ), to emphasize the urgency of her petition. Compare Esther 3:13 . perish. See note on Esther 3:13 . countervail = make good, or compensate. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Esther 7:5

answered and said. Note the idiom = threatened and said. See note on Deuteronomy 1:41 . WHO IS HE, AND WHERE IS HE . . . ? This is the fifth Acrostic, which gives (not Jehovah but) the Divine Name "I AM" of Exodus 3:14 . See App-60 . HE. Note the emphatic repetition of this pronoun. read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:6

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 7:10

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Esther 7:1-10

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Esther 7:2

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Esther 7:3

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Esther 7:4

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Esther 7:5

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