Esther - Lesson Seven - Day 5

DAY FIVE: The Reaped Reward

Please carefully read Esther 7:9?10 and answer the following questions.

1.  Haman’s face had been covered at the words of the king; his doom was sealed.  One of the eunuchs, Harbonah, spoke up at that point.  What did he tell the king (v. 9)?

NOTES: No doubt Haman was not too well appreciated by the people of Susa and the king’s household either.  Interestingly, Harbonah is a fitting name.  He was mentioned as one of the eunuchs responsible for the women in Esther 1:10.  His name can either mean “donkey driver,” not too great of a term for someone in charge of women, or ironically “the anger of him who builds,” reflecting Haman’s angry building of the seventy-five foot tall gallows on which to impale the one the king honored![xiii][xiii]

2.  What was Ahasuerus’ response to Harbonah’s statement (v. 9b)?

3.  What happened then, and what was its effect (v. 10)?  How does this all tie in with this week’s memory passage (Galatians 6:7?8)?

4.   This gives new meaning to the phrase, “Hang ‘em high!”  In all of this we can’t help but see a picture of what had to be done for us as sinful men.  The word subsided meant to go down, get lower, to abate like flood waters, and was the same term used to describe Noah’s flood waters subsiding.[xiv][xiv]  In the same way, something had to make the waters of God’s wrath subside because of our sin.  We’ll see more of a picture of this in Lesson 8 as well. What does Galatians 3:10?14 tell us of why Christ had to be “hung” for our offenses against God?

Scripture Memory:  Can you write out this week’s passage by memory here below?  Give it a try, and keep reviewing the passage several times throughout the day.

Galatians 6:7-8