But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
But when Esther went to the king, he ordered in writing that Haman's evil plan against the Jews should backfire on him instead, and that both Haman and his sons should be executed by hanging.
This verse shows how God turned Haman's evil plot against the Jews completely around, so that Haman himself faced the very punishment he had planned for others.
📚 Historical Context
This refers to the climax of the Esther story, where Queen Esther courageously revealed to King Xerxes that she was Jewish and exposed Haman's genocidal plot against her people. Haman, the king's chief minister, had built gallows specifically to execute Mordecai (Esther's cousin) and had cast lots to determine the date for destroying all Jews in the Persian Empire. The ironic justice of Haman being hanged on his own gallows became a powerful example of divine justice in Jewish tradition.
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