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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Esther 7"
description: "CHAPTER 7   :-. ESTHER PLEADS
FOR HER OWN
LIFE AND THE LIFE
OF HER PEOPLE. 4. we are sold, I and my people, to
be destroyed—that is, by the cruel and perf"
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CHAPTER 7

. ESTHER PLEADS
FOR HER OWN
LIFE AND THE LIFE
OF HER PEOPLE.

**4. we are sold, I and my people, to
be destroyed**—that is, by the cruel and perfidious scheme of
that man, who offered an immense sum of money to purchase our
extermination. Esther dwelt on his contemplated atrocity, in a
variety of expressions, which both evinced the depth of her own
emotions, and were intended to awaken similar feelings in the king's
breast.
**But if we had been sold for
bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue**—Though a great
calamity to the Jews, the enslavement of that people might have
enriched the national treasury; and, at all events, the policy, if
found from experience to be bad, could be altered. But the
destruction of such a body of people would be an irreparable evil,
and all the talents Haman might pour into the treasury could not
compensate for the loss of their services.
. THE KING
CAUSES HAMAN
TO BE HANGED
ON HIS OWN
GALLOWS.

**7. he saw that there was evil
determined against him by the king**—When the king of Persia
orders an offender to be executed, and then rises and goes into the
women's apartment, it is a sign that no mercy is to be hoped for.
Even the sudden rising of the king in anger was the same as if he had
pronounced sentence.

**8. Haman was fallen upon the bed
whereon Esther was**—We do not know the precise form of the
couches on which the Persians reclined at table. But it is probable
that they were not very different from those used by the Greeks and
Romans. Haman, perhaps, at first stood up to beg pardon of Esther;
but driven in his extremity to resort to an attitude of the most
earnest supplication, he fell prostrate on the couch where the queen
was recumbent. The king returning that instant was fired at what
seemed an outrage on female modesty.
**they covered Haman's face**—The
import of this striking action is, that a criminal is unworthy any
longer to look on the face of the king, and hence, when malefactors
are consigned to their doom in Persia, the first thing is to cover
the face with a veil or napkin.

**9. Harbonah, one of the
chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows**—This
eunuch had probably been the messenger sent with the invitation to
Haman, and on that occasion had seen the gallows. The information he
now volunteered, as well it may be from abhorrence of Haman's
cold-blooded conspiracy as from sympathy with his amiable mistress,
involved with her people in imminent peril.

**10. So they hanged Haman on the
gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai**—He has not been the
only plotter of mischief whose feet have been taken in the net which
they hid ([Psalms 9:15](../../../kjv/psalms/9/15)). But never
was condemnation more just, and retribution more merited, than the
execution of that gigantic criminal.

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