Esther 7:9

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7 Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.

8 When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across ^athe couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?” As the word left the king’s mouth, they ^bcovered Haman’s face.

9 Now ^aHarbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, “Look! ^bThe gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke ^cgood on the king’s behalf, is standing at the house of Haman.” Then the king said, “Hang him on it!”

10 So ^athey ^bhanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Esther 7:9

Behold also , the gallows - As if he had said, Besides all he has determined to do to the Jews, he has erected a very high gallows, on which he had determined, this very day, to hang Mordecai, who has saved the king' s life.

Hang him thereon - Let him be instantly impaled on the same post. "Harm watch, harm catch," says the proverb. Perillus was the first person burnt alive in the brazen bull which he had made for the punishment of others; hence the poet said: -

\ri720 - Nec lex est justior ulla, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua .

"Nor can there be a juster law than that the artificers of death should perish by their own invention."

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