Charles Ellicott Commentary Esther 7:9

"Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him thereon." — Esther 7:9 (ASV)

Harbonah. — See Esther 1:10.

One of the chamberlains... — Translate: one of the chamberlains [who stood, or served] before the king, said.

Hang him. — In the Septuagint, let him be crucified. The climax of the story is now reached in the pithy words, They hanged Haman upon the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. In his own house (Esther 7:9), that is, probably, in some court or garden belonging to it, in the sight undoubtedly of his own children and his own servants, and the wife who had given him such cold comfort, did the unfortunate man meet his fate.

Thus, not only does God graciously grant deliverance to His people, but He also brings upon the enemy the very destruction he had devised for his adversary: He hath fallen himself into the pit that he digged for other.

Our Saviour has rescued us from our enemy who was too mighty for us, and has trodden down our foe, to be destroyed forever in His own good time. So, may we Christians see in the dangers threatening the Jews throughout this book a picture of our own, and in Haman’s discomfiture a type of the victory of the Lamb over sin and Satan.