Esther 7:3-10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Esther 7:1-6

The king in humour, and Haman out of humour, meet at Esther's table. Now, I. The king urged Esther, a third time, to tell him what her request was, for he longed to know, and repeated his promise that it should be granted, Est. 7:2. If the king had now forgotten that Esther had an errand to him, and had not again asked what it was, she could scarcely have known how to renew it herself; but he was mindful of it, and now was bound with the threefold cord of a promise thrice made to favour her.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Esther 7:7-10

Here, I. The king retires in anger. He rose from table in a great passion, and went into the palace garden to cool himself and to consider what was to be done, Est. 7:7. He sent not for his seven wise counsellors who knew the times, being ashamed to consult them about the undoing of that which he had rashly done without their knowledge or advice; but he went to walk in the garden awhile, to compare in his thoughts what Esther had now informed him of with what had formerly passed between him... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 7:3

Then Esther the queen answered and said ,.... Not rolling herself at the king's knees, as Severus F6 Hist. Sacr. l. 2. writes; but rather, as the former Targum, lifting up her eyes to heaven, and perhaps putting up a secret ejaculation for direction and success: if I have found favour in thy sight, O king ; as she certainly had heretofore, and even now: and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition ; not riches, nor honour, nor any place or post at court, or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 7:4

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish ,.... She makes use of these several words, to express the utter destruction of her and her people, without any exception; not only the more to impress the king's mind with it, but she has respect to the precise words of the decree, Esther 3:13 as she has also to the 10,000 talents of silver Haman offered to pay the king for the grant of it, when she says, "we are sold", or delivered to be destroyed: but if we... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 7:5

Then the King Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen ,.... The words in the original text lie thus, "and the King Ahasuerus said, and he said to Esther the queen"; which doubling of the word does not signify, as Jarchi suggests, that before he spoke to her by a messenger, or middle person, but, now he knew she was of a royal family, he spoke to her himself; but it is expressive of the ruffle of his mind, and the wrath and fury he was in, that he said it again and again, with a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 7:6

And Esther said, the adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman ,.... Who was not only an enemy to her and her people, but an adversary to the king, by advising and persuading him to that which was to the loss of his revenues, as well as of his reputation; also, she pointed at him, and gave him his just character; her charge of wickedness upon him, as it was true, it was honourably made to his face before the king, of which, if he could, he had the opportunity of exculpating himself: then... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 7:7

And the king, arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath, went into the palace garden ,.... Not being able to bear the sight of Haman, who had done such an injury both to himself and to the queen; as also that his wrath might subside, and he become more composed and sedate, and be able coolly to deliberate what was fitting to be done in the present case: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen ; hoping that her tender heart might be wrought upon to show... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 7:8

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine ,.... Being a little cooler, and more composed in his mind, see See Gill on Esther 1:5 . and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was ; not the bed she lay on to sleep in the night, (for it cannot be thought that it was a bedchamber in which the banquet was,) but on the bed or couch on which she sat or reclined at the banquet, as was the custom in the eastern countries; now, "by", or "near"... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 7:9

And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king ,.... One of the seven chamberlains, see Esther 1:10 , his name, with Josephus F25 Antiqu. l. 11. c. 6. sect. 11. , is Sabouchadas. Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman . This man, perhaps, had seen it there, when he went with others to fetch Haman to the banquet, Esther 6:14 . The sin of Haman is aggravated by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai ,.... Not within his house, Esther 7:9 , but more probably in his courtyard, in the sight of his family and friends; or, it may be, the gallows was taken from thence, and set up without the city, where he was hanged: for so it is said in the additions of the book of Esther,"For he that was the worker of these things, is hanged at the gates of Susa with all his family: God, who ruleth all things, speedily rendering... read more

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