So, at the end of the last chapter, the King and Haman were on their way to meet Esther for the second feast.
Once they've eaten and had some wine, the King asks again what it is that Esther wants.
This time, Esther begins to beg the King to spare the life of her and her people. She says that she wouldn't have even bothered him had it only been slavery, but they are all about to be killed.
The King, slightly taken aback, asks who and where is the man who could even think to lay on finger on her.
Esther responds that it is Haman.
I imagine at this point, Haman was probably breaking into a cold sweat. It says in the Bible that he is now afraid of the King and Queen and what they might do to him.
The King gets so angry that he has to go out into the garden to think things over, leaving Haman and Esther in her banquet hall.
Haman is terrified, so he runs over to Esther to beg that she tries to talk to the King, knowing that the King is planning some terrible demise to the one who had threatened his beloved.
The King comes back in to find this unpleasant scene, with Haman having thrown himself on the bed with Esther, probably writhing around, begging for mercy.
The King's mind flies to all the things that he assumes Haman was doing. He is very angry, thinking he had tried to force himself on Esther.
The King is absolutely in a rage when a servant comes in and tells the King a report about the gallows that Haman had built in his backyard for Mordecai.
If the King hadn't known that Mordecai had saved his life, and if he hadn't liked Mordecai, he may have dismissed it.
But he didn't.
Haman had pushed the King just a little too hard.
So the King had Haman hung on the gallows intended for Mordecai.
All of Haman's plans came crashing down around him in just a very little while. He had let his anger and hatred fuel his actions, and it got him dangling lifeless from a gallows in his own backyard.
And thus ends Mordecai's story, although, not Esther's. Not quite.
Cheers!
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