Esther 7:5-8

The Message

⁵ King Xerxes exploded, “Who? Where is he? This is monstrous!”

⁶ “An enemy. An adversary. This evil Haman,” said Esther.

Haman was terror-stricken before the king and queen.

^7-8 The king, raging, left his wine and stomped out into the palace garden.

Haman stood there pleading with Queen Esther for his life—he could see that the king was finished with him and that he was doomed. As the king came back from the palace garden into the banquet hall, Haman was groveling at the couch on which Esther reclined. The king roared out, “Will he even molest the queen while I’m just around the corner?”

When that word left the king’s mouth, all the blood drained from Haman’s face.