What is the context?
The king goes into the garden in anger while Haman begs Esther for his life. Returning, the king sees him falling onto Esther’s couch and accuses him of assaulting her.
Harbonah points out the gallows Haman prepared for Mordecai, who had saved the king. Xerxes orders Haman’s execution on that structure, and his anger subsides.
The reversal brings Haman’s own preparation back upon him. Yet his removal does not automatically cancel the decree against the Jews, so the rescue remains unfinished.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley understands the king’s accusation through his anger, rather than treating the scene as proof that Haman has planned a sexual attack. The USCCB translation describes a stake and impalement where the BSB uses gallows and hanging. Both accounts make the same narrative reversal clear without supplying identical wording about the execution.
What is our position?
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Where can I study this further?
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