{"id":1201,"date":"2025-02-02T07:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T07:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simplemanswalkthroughthebible.org\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2025-02-02T07:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T07:37:58","slug":"5-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplemanswalkthroughthebible.org\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the third day, Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king\u2019s palace across from his house. The king sat facing the house entrance and saw Queen Esther standing there. She found favour and he held out his golden sceptre (v1-5). This was the invitation to her, and she went and touched the sceptre. He realised that she had a problem and asked her what it was, and he promised to give what she requested up to half the kingdom. This seemed to be a common statement offering up to half the kingdom. Herod did the same when Herodias\u2019 daughter danced before him (Mark 6), and she pleased him. He offered to give her up to half the kingdom. Sadly, she asked for the head of John the Baptist, who had displeased her mother by pointing out her sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esther was cautious in her request and invited him together with Haman to her banquet that day. The king was pleased and sent messengers to Haman and they both attended Esther\u2019s banquet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the banquet the king repeated his answer to her request (v6-8). Maybe he realised that that was not the sum of her petition just to attend her banquet. I assume that Haman was&nbsp;<a>very pleased<\/a>&nbsp;to be invited to a banquet with just the king and queen. He&nbsp;<a>probably thought<\/a>&nbsp;that this was further promotion. I could imagine him saying something like, \u201cOnly me and the king, invited, what an honour!\u201d (I know that might be poor grammar, but I am sure that he put himself first, even before the king.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Queen Esther had shown great courage going before the king, and the invitation to a banquet, may have been a secondary request. However, she either cannot pluck up enough courage to make her real request, or she is being crafty in setting the scene for this proud man Haman. She delays and invites them to another banquet the following day and said that she would make her petition then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haman was overjoyed to be invited again (v9-13) and on his way out he saw Mordecai and was filled with indignation against him. Mordecai showed no fear before him, and Haman had to restrain himself from reacting. He shows his true nature when he arrived home and told his friends and his wife, how great he was, riches, children and now, his promotion and even more, he, and no-one else being invited, not once, but twice to a banquet with the king and queen. But and there is a \u2018but\u2019, \u2018that measly man Mordecai is still sat in the king\u2019s gate.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worldly accolades never satisfy fully. They may for a time, but much always wants more. His evil scheme to get rid of the Jews was still to be fulfilled, and then he would be happy, or would he?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His wife, Zeresh, tried to calm him down, and she and his friends suggested that he build gallows 75 feet high, and suggest to the king tomorrow that Mordecai be hanged on it, and then \u2018you will be happy\u2019! (v14)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haman was pleased with that idea, what a spectacle that would be \u2013 that measly man Mordecai impaled on those gallows (<a>probably a<\/a>&nbsp;pointed stake) 75 feet in the air for everyone to see and the man dying an excruciating death. What a great man that would make Haman. His pride was stoked, and he could go to the banquet a happy man, but his hatred knew no bounds. The gallows were made overnight and set up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the third day, Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king\u2019s palace across from his house. The king sat facing the house entrance and saw Queen Esther standing there. She found favour and he held out his golden sceptre (v1-5). 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