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Verse 8

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 The enraged monarch quickly construes the attitude of Haman into the worst possible offence.

As the word went Not the words of the question just stated, but the word of judgment against Haman the sentence to have him away at once to execution.

Covered Haman’s face Muffled his head with a cloth or vail, preliminary to his execution. When the death warrant went out of the king’s mouth, all was virtually over with Haman. The attendant chamberlains hurry him away to the more public executioners.

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