But when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letter that his wicked device which he had devised against the Jews should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows, demonstrating that the king's authorization of the counter-edict and the execution of Haman and his sons represented the means by which the threat was overturned. The phrase his wicked device...should return upon his own head encapsulates the principle of poetic justice: the destruction Haman had intended for others was visited upon himself. The verse shows how those who plot destruction for others often become the targets of their own devices.

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