“And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.”
And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, Moreover, there is the gallows fifty cubits high that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king. It stands in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him on it!, demonstrating that one of the king's eunuchs brings to the king's attention the gallows that Haman had prepared for Mordecai and connects this to Mordecai's service to the king in exposing the assassination plot. This revelation of the gallows prepared for Mordecai provides the final piece of evidence of Haman's malice and justifies the king's command to hang him on the gallows he had prepared. The verse demonstrates the theological principle that God often allows the wicked to prepare instruments of their own destruction.
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