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Esther 8:7

in Esther 8

So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.

KJV

Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.

This verse in Esther 8

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

because he laid his hand upon the Jews

The king's answer to Esther and Mordecai together recounts what has already been done, the house given, the man hanged, because he laid his hand upon the Jews, before he turns to what remains undone. Ahasuerus speaks of the matter as though it were settled, even though the decree of 3:12-13 has not been touched, a king content with his own resolution while the empire's Jews still live under a dated sentence. The gap between the king's sense of resolution and the law's continuing force sets up the legal problem the next verse names outright.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then the King Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen, and to Mordecai the Jew,....

The words behind it

21 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֨אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • הַמֶּ֤לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH44282525 times

  • אֲחַשְׁוֵרֹשׁ֙Ahasuerus

    ʾachashveroshH32531 times

  • לְאֶסְתֵּ֣רto Esther

    leesterH63555 times

  • הַמַּלְכָּ֔הthe queen

    hamalkahH443635 times

  • וּֽלְמָרְדֳּכַ֖יand to Mordecai

    ulemaredokhaiH478260 times

  • הַיְּהוּדִ֑יthe Jew

    haiyehudiH306475 times

  • הִנֵּ֨הhere!

    hinehH2009843 times

  • בֵית־[the] house of

    veit-H10042046 times

  • הָמָ֜ןHaman

    hamanH200154 times

  • נָתַ֣תִּיI have given

    natatiH54142011 times

  • לְאֶסְתֵּ֗רto Esther

    leesterH63555 times

  • וְאֹתוֹ֙and <obj.> him

    veotoH85310935 times

  • תָּל֣וּthey have hanged

    taluH851827 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • הָעֵ֔ץthe gallows

    haetzH6086328 times

  • עַ֛לon

    ʾalH59215755 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • שָׁלַ֥חhe stretched out

    shalachH7971845 times

  • יָד֖וֹhand his

    yadoH30271618 times

  • בַּיְּהוּדִֽים׃on the Jews

    baiyehudiyimH306475 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Galatians 3:13

    Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

    it leads to

    • 1 Peter 2:24

      He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

    • Deuteronomy 21:23

      you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must…

    • Hebrews 9:12

      He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.

    • Hebrews 9:15

      Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under…

    • 1 Peter 1:18–21

      For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

  • Through

    Proverbs 13:22

    A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.

    it leads to

    • Ecclesiastes 2:26

      To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over…

    • Job 27:16–17

      Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

    • Proverbs 28:8

      He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.

Where this verse is studied

About Esther

This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.