Esther 7:10
What does Esther 7:10 mean?
A plain-English look at Esther 7:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
What Esther 7:10 means
Haman is hanged on the very gallows he prepared for Mordecai. The outcome is stark and swift. The wicked architect of destruction meets his end by his own device, while Mordecai is spared. “Then was the king’s wrath pacified” signals that just punishment has satisfied royal justice; the immediate crisis at court is resolved. Yet the decree against the Jews still stands, so this is not the final deliverance but the turning point that makes it possible. The verse encapsulates the book’s theme of providential reversal and moral symmetry—pride brought low, the threatened protected, and authority employed, at last, to defend life rather than destroy it.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
KJV
King James Version · 1611So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath was appeased.
Context
This final verse completes the sequence initiated at the banquet: plea, revelation, accusation, deliberation, condemnation, execution. It resolves the tension within the palace and sets the stage for administrative remedies to the empire-wide decree in the following narrative. Readers should see it as both an end and a beginning—the downfall of the enemy and the opening for deliverance to be enacted. The chapter’s theme of measured timing and decisive justice reaches its satisfying conclusion here.
v.9Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him thereon.
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 7:16
His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
- Esther 2:1
After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
- Ezekiel 5:13
Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted: and they shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them.
- Zechariah 6:8
Then cried he to me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, they that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.
- Daniel 6:24
And the king commanded, and they brought those men that had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.
- Judges 15:7
And Samson said unto them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.