SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:9
Y dijo Harbona, uno de los eunucos de delante del rey: He aquí también la horca de cincuenta codos de altura que hizo Amán para Mardoqueo, el cual había hablado bien por el rey, está en casa de Amán. Entonces el rey dijo: Colgadlo en ella.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Esther 7:9
Verse 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:- - 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."
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 9. And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king , etc.] One of the seven chamberlains, (see Esther 1:10), his name, with Josephus f162 , is Sabouchadas. Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman . This man, perhaps, had seen it there, when he went with others to fetch Haman to the banquet, ( Esther 6:14). The sin of Haman is aggravated by preparing a gallows for a man before he was accused to the king, or condemned, or had a grant for his execution, and for a man that had well deserved of the king for discovering a conspiracy against him, and whom now the king had delighted to honour: then the king said, hang him thereon ; immediately, being ready prepared, the king’s word was enough, being a sovereign and tyrannical prince.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-10 - The king was angry: those that do things with self-will, reflect upo them afterward with self-reproach. When angry, we should pause befor we come to any resolution, and thus rule our own spirits, and show tha we are governed by reason. Those that are most haughty and insolen when in power and prosperity, commonly, like Haman, are the most abjec and poor-spirited when brought down. The day is coming when those tha hate and persecute God's chosen ones, would gladly be beholden to them The king returns yet more angry against Haman. Those about him wer ready to put his wrath into execution. How little can proud men be sure of the interest they think they have! The enemies of God's church have often been thus taken in their own craftiness. The Lord is known by such judgments. Then was the king's wrath pacified, and not till then And who pities Haman hanged on his own gallows? who does not rathe rejoice in the Divine righteousness displayed in the destruction his own art brought upon him? Let the workers of iniquity tremble, turn to the Lord, and seek pardon through the blood of Jesus __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 חרבונה 2726 אחד 259 מן 4480 הסריסים 5631 לפני 6440 המלך 4428 גם 1571 הנה 2009 העץ 6086 אשׁר 834 עשׂה 6213 המן 2001 למרדכי 4782 אשׁר 834 דבר 1696 טוב 2896 על 5921 המלך 4428 עמד 5975 בבית 1004 המן 2001 גבה 1364 חמשׁים 2572 אמה 520 ויאמר 559 המלך 4428 תלהו 8518 עליו׃ 5921
