Esther still hasn't told Xerxes about her request, and he's getting kind of impatient. This is obviously important to her. He must have been wondering what was taking so long for her to tell him. Man, I'd freak out. Can you imagine his initial thought when Esther finally tells him that her request is to simply spare her life (which she took into her hands by approaching the king in his court without previous appointment), and the lives of those of her people.
Esther goes on to tell Xerxes that she and her people had been marked for annihilation. Slavery, meh, that's no cause to go before the king.
Xerxes appears to have no clue who would do such a thing to his queen, despite having co-signed on Haman's genocide of the Jews. How often does he do this? I mean, really. Perhaps he didn't want to believe it was Haman, his trusted official. There had to be some other legislation pushed through that he missed or forgot about. But Esther tells him, yeah, it's Haman, who is sitting right there in front of them.
Xerxes leaves in a huff, enraged probably. He comes back just in time to see Haman falling on the couch with Esther to beg her for his life. It looks to Xerxes (who is not thinking rationally again) that Haman is in the midst of making a play for Esther. Yeah. In the middle of being sentenced to death. That Haman is a hound dog!
So Haman is hanged on the gallows that were built for Mordecai. The innocent was spared, as the evil one was executed.
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