{"id":223,"date":"2023-08-13T21:08:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T21:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/txcolliers.net\/biblestudy\/?p=223"},"modified":"2023-08-13T21:09:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T21:09:31","slug":"hamans-just-deserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/txcolliers.net\/biblestudy\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Haman&#8217;s Just Deserts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Haman's Plot Exposed\n<\/strong>Esther 7:1-7a\nSo the king and Haman went to Queen Esther\u2019s banquet. On this second occasion, while they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, \u201cTell me what you want, Queen Esther. What is your request? I will give it to you, even if it is half the kingdom!\u201d\nQueen Esther replied, \u201cIf I have found favor with the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my request, I ask that my life and the lives of my people will be spared. For my people and I have been sold to those who would kill, slaughter, and annihilate us. If we had merely been sold as slaves, I could remain quiet, for that would be too trivial a matter to warrant disturbing the king.\u201d\n\u201cWho would do such a thing?\u201d King Xerxes demanded. \u201cWho would be so presumptuous as to touch you?\u201d\nEsther replied, \u201cThis wicked Haman is our adversary and our enemy.\u201d Haman grew pale with fright before the king and queen. Then the king jumped to his feet in a rage and went out into the palace garden.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Recall that Haman&#8217;s world is already collapsing around him. He has just been humiliated by leading Mordecai around the city and extolling him (at the king&#8217;s command). His wife and advisors have predicted his ruin, and now he&#8217;s rushed off to Esther&#8217;s second banquet. How much worse can it get?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Put yourself in Haman&#8217;s shoes. What do you expect he&#8217;s thinking at this point?  Does he have any clue what is coming?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Esther jumps right to the point in responding to the king&#8217;s request. How was this a wise thing to do?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why does Esther bring up the subject of being sold as slaves here?  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Haman's Doom<\/strong>\nEsther 7:7b-10\nHaman, however, stayed behind to plead for his life with Queen Esther, for he knew that the king intended to kill him.  In despair he fell on the couch where Queen Esther was reclining, just as the king was returning from the palace garden. The king exclaimed, \u201cWill he even assault the queen right here in the palace, before my very eyes?\u201d And as soon as the king spoke, his attendants covered Haman\u2019s face, signaling his doom.   Then Harbona, one of the king\u2019s eunuchs, said, \u201cHaman has set up a sharpened pole that stands seventy-five feet tall in his own courtyard. He intended to use it to impale Mordecai, the man who saved the king from assassination.\u201d \u201cThen impale Haman on it!\u201d the king ordered.  So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and the king\u2019s anger subsided.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What is the effect of Haman&#8217;s last-ditch effort to plead for his life?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What lessons do you find in the life and surprising end of Haman?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Mordecai's Exaltation\n<\/strong>Esther 8:1-2\nOn that same day King Xerxes gave the property of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, to Queen Esther. Then Mordecai was brought before the king, for Esther had told the king how they were related. The king took off his signet ring\u2014which he had taken back from Haman\u2014and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai to be in charge of Haman\u2019s property.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How does the king deal with the estate of his former advisor? <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What questions does this settlement still leave unresolved?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haman&#8217;s Plot Exposed Esther 7:1-7a So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther\u2019s banquet. On this second occasion, while they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, \u201cTell me what you want, Queen Esther. What is your request? 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