Esther 7
(v.7) Queen Esther finally reveals her wishes to the king, and floors him that not only is she a Jew, but she and her people will be wiped out by Haman!
(v.8) The king could have immediately lashed out on Haman, but he left the room to think. I believe this was God's work, since at this point, the king might have just reprimanded Haman and tried to counter the decree from before. But when the king returned to the Queen and Haman, he saw Haman prone on the Queen's legs! Haman was most likely pleading for his life, but the King must have thought that Haman was either sexually assaulting Esther, or physically harming her.
I think the scene makes sense if we picture Haman repeatedly trying to fall at the Queen's feet, while she keep pushing him away...so the king saw it as a struggle that would harm the Queen.
(v.10) So many times we've read in books, or seen in movies, where the bad guy makes a plan to kill the good guy, and the bad guy's doom comes from the very trap he intended for the good guy! They must have gotten this template from the book of Esther! It's so ironic, that the very gallows that Haman had built to kill the Jews (and especially Mordecai) was the place where his own death would occur!
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