“Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.”
So they prepared a gallows, fifty cubits high, suggesting that Haman and his servants immediately undertake the construction of the gallows in preparation for the execution of Mordecai, demonstrating the swiftness with which his plans move from conception to implementation. This physical preparation of the instrument of Mordecai's death serves as a dramatic irony, as the gallows will eventually be used not for Mordecai's execution but for Haman's own, a reversal that remains hidden from Haman and that demonstrates the way God often works to overturn the plans of the wicked through their own devices.
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