Esther 7:10 Meaning and Explanation

So Haman is hanged on the very gallows he prepared for Mordecai, and the king's wrath is pacified. The sentence he devised for another falls upon himself, a justice so fitting it needs no comment. The enemy of the Jews is destroyed by his own design.

This is the moral center of the book made visible: the evil a man plots recoils upon his own head. Without naming God, the narrator lets the symmetry proclaim a higher justice at work, the proud brought low, the schemer ensnared in his own snare. Yet the danger is not over; the irreversible decree against the Jews still stands. Haman is dead, but his deadly law lives on, and Esther must plead again.