Esther 8:7 (LSB)

Passage

So King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given the house of Haman to Esther, and him they have hanged on the gallows because he had sent forth his hand against the Jews.

Nearby Context

Esther 8:5 Then she said, “If it seems good to the king, and if I have found favor before him and the matter seems proper to the king and I am good in his eyes, let it be written to turn back the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to cause the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces to perish.

Esther 8:6 For how can I endure to see the calamity which will befall my people, and how can I endure to see the perishing of my kinsmen?”

Esther 8:7 So King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given the house of Haman to Esther, and him they have hanged on the gallows because he had sent forth his hand against the Jews.

Esther 8:8 Now you write to the Jews, according to what is good in your eyes, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s signet ring; for a written decree which is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s signet ring may not be turned back.”

Esther 8:9 So the king’s scribes were called at that time in the third month (that is, the month Sivan), on the twenty-third day; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the princes of the provinces which extended from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to every province according to its script, and to every people according to their tongue as well as to the Jews according to their script and their tongue.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "king", "ahasuerus", "said", "queen", "esther", "mordecai", "behold", and "given". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "king" and "ahasuerus", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "For how can I endure to see..." into verse 8's "Now you write to the Jews according...", so "king" and "ahasuerus" belong inside that flow. In Esther context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "king" and "ahasuerus" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.