7:1 So the king and Haman came to dine with Queen Esther. 

Haman may have been the wealthiest man in Persia, but this was going to be his last meal.

7:2 On the second day of the banquet of wine the king asked Esther, “What is your request, Queen Esther? It shall be granted to you. And what is your petition? Ask up to half the kingdom, and it shall be done!”

Queen Esther had more courage the second time around. Xerxes offered her another blank check.

7:3 Queen Esther replied, “If I have met with your approval, O king, and if the king is so inclined, grant me my life as my request, and my people as my petition.

Esther asked the King to save Esther’s life and the life of her people.

7:4 For we have been sold—both I and my people—to destruction and to slaughter and to annihilation! If we had simply been sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, for such distress would not have been sufficient for troubling the king.”

This answer startled Xerxes and Haman. They had no idea that Esther was Jewish. Xerxes was madly in love with a beautiful Jewish girl. He had just promised her a blank check. Notice that Esther mentioned the fact that Haman’s purchase of the right to destroy the Jews would cost the king a lot more than he thought, since he would lose the taxes from the industrious and prosperous Jewish population. 

7:5 Then King Ahasuerus responded to Queen Esther, “Who is this individual? Where is this person to be found who is presumptuous enough to act in this way?”

Xerxes still had not put the puzzle together. He had never asked Haman for the identity of the people of whom was to be exterminated. Life was very cheap in that day. Xerxes sent two million people to death at Thermopylae and never lost any sleep. Xerxes wanted to know the identity of his wife’s dangerous enemy.

7:6 Esther replied, “The oppressor and enemy is this evil Haman!” Thence Haman became terrified in the presence of the king and queen.

Haman was foolish. He was biblically ignorant. No weapon formed against Israel will ever prosper. God blesses those who bless the Jews and curses those who curse the Jews. 

Many modern political leaders are too biblically ignorant to understand this divine concept.  When a biblically-ignorant electorate places a biblically-ignorant politician on the stage, then the survival of the nation is at risk.

7:7 In rage the king arose from the banquet of wine and withdrew to the palace garden. Meanwhile, Haman stood to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king had now determined a catastrophic end for him.

The King was so enraged, that this request caused him to leave his palace and go out into the garden to cool off and think about this situation. He may have been contemplating of a way to save Esther and the Jews from this edict. Haman was about to be executed. This Jewish Queen was his only hope of survival. This anti-semitic mass murderer suddenly became a beggar to a Jewish woman.

7:8 When the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet of wine, Haman was throwing himself down on the couch where Esther was lying. The king exclaimed, “Will he also attempt to rape the queen while I am still in the building!” As these words left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

This reclining couch was made of gold and silver. It was very similar to the reclining couches of the Greeks and Romans. Jesus and His disciples reclined on couches at the Last Supper. Haman was desperate, because he had approached too close to the queen. This movement violated the strict rules imposed upon monarchical harems.

7:9 Harbona, one of the king’s eunuchs, said, “Indeed, there is the gallows that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke out in the king’s behalf. It stands near Haman’s home and is seventy-five feet high.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

Persia was an absolute monarchy. The king was the judge and jury. Haman was to be impaled on his own pole immediately. He was to receive the curse-for-curse aspect of the Abrahamic Covenant.

7:10 So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.

The Abrahamic Covenant is unconditional. It is still in effect today. If any government, politician, electorate, or individual curses a Jew, then the nation, group, or individual will receive the curse-for-curse aspect of the Abrahamic Covenant. It is not wise for politicians to enforce policies that are anti-Israel. It places the nation at risk. These biblically-ignorant politicians bring curses upon the nation. The electorate needs to remember that America is only as strong as their support of Israel.