Est. 7 Esther maketh a petition for her own and her people’s life, Est. 7:1–4. She accuseth Haman, who had determined to destroy the Jews, Est. 7:5–6. Haman is afraid, Est. 7:6. The king in his anger, Est.

The banquet of wine; so it is called, to note that it was not designed for a feast to fill their bellies, but rather for a banquet to delight and please their palates with wine and other delicacies: See Poole “Est. 5:8”.

It is my humble and only request, that thou wouldst not give me up to the malice of that man that designs to take away my life, and will certainly do it, if thou dost not prevent it.

We are sold by the craft and cruelty of that man, who offered a great sum of money to purchase our destruction. I and my people; for we are all given up to his malice and rage, without any exception of my own person.

Who is he? and where is he? The expressions are short and doubled, as proceeding from a discomposed and enraged mind. To do so, i.e. to circumvent me, and by subtlety to procure an irrevocable decree, whereby not only my estate should be so much impaired, and so many of my innocent subjects be…

The adversary and enemy of the king, and of my person and people.

Went into the palace garden; partly, as disdaining the company and sight of so ungrateful and audacious a person; partly, to cool and allay his troubled and inflamed spirits; and partly, to consider within himself the heinousness of Haman’s crime, and the mischief which himself had done by his own…

Upon the bed; or, by or beside the bed; on which the queen sat at meat, after the manner; where he was fallen upon his knees, and upon the ground, at her feet, as humble suppliants used to do, and as the queen did at the king’s feet, Est. 8:3.

Harbonah knew this either by his own observation, or by the information of some of his brethren, who were lately sent to Haman’s house, Est. 6:14, where they might easily see it, or at least hear of it.

The gallows that he had prepared; which stood in his own house, as was now said, and made the punishment more grievous and ignominious. Then was the king’s wrath pacified; judgment being now most justly executed upon this abominable criminal.