Esther 7

Esther 7:1-3

_SO THE KING AND HAMAN CAME TO BANQUET WITH ESTHER THE QUEEN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]

Esther 7:4

_FOR WE ARE SOLD, I AND MY PEOPLE, TO BE DESTROYED, TO BE SLAIN, AND TO PERISH. BUT IF WE HAD BEEN SOLD FOR BONDMEN AND BONDWOMEN, I HAD HELD MY TONGUE, ALTHOUGH THE ENEMY COULD NOT COUNTERVAIL THE KING'S DAMAGE._ We are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed - i:e., by the cruel and perfidious sch... [ Continue Reading ]

Esther 7:5,6

_THEN THE KING AHASUERUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO ESTHER THE QUEEN, WHO IS HE, AND WHERE IS HE, THAT DURST PRESUME IN HIS HEART TO DO SO?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]

Esther 7:7

_AND THE KING ARISING FROM THE BANQUET OF WINE IN HIS WRATH WENT INTO THE PALACE GARDEN: AND HAMAN STOOD UP TO MAKE REQUEST FOR HIS LIFE TO ESTHER THE QUEEN; FOR HE SAW THAT THERE WAS EVIL DETERMINED AGAINST HIM BY THE KING._ He saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. When the k... [ Continue Reading ]

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._ Haman was fall... [ Continue Reading ]

Esther 7:9

_AND HARBONAH, ONE OF THE CHAMBERLAINS, SAID BEFORE THE KING, 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. THEN THE KING SAID, HANG HIM THEREON._ Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the ki... [ Continue Reading ]

Esther 7:10

_SO THEY HANGED HAMAN ON THE GALLOWS THAT HE HAD PREPARED FOR MORDECAI. THEN WAS THE KING'S WRATH PACIFIED._ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared. He has not been the only plotter of mischief whose feet have been taken in the net which they hid (Psalms 9:15). But never was conde... [ Continue Reading ]