Power placed in the hands of a cruel and callous man, is a great error, and, if the king had given such a man his power (cp. Esther 3:1; cp. Ecclesiastes 10:5-7), who could correct the king? Likewise, if a fool is placed in such high authority, who would have the power to correct him? Although the king has such power, it is not the way of kings to admit error. Why would he exercise his supreme power, only to reveal his own lack of wisdom in the choice he had made? Due to the fact that fools aren’t very good at hiding their foolishness, because all his ways are right in his own eyes (Proverbs 12:15), it is quite clear to everyone else that a fool with great power has too much authority, (Ecclesiastes 10:3), and Haman is no exception to this general rule.
Since Haman was given the king’s ring, which acted as the king’s signature on or his command concerning a matter, it seems that Ahasuerus may have been ignorant of the details of Haman’s conspiracy (Esther 3:10). Therefore, having delegated the details of his command to his prime minister, only those under Haman’s immediate authority would be privy of the whole of Haman’s conspiracy (cp. Esther 3:12), and who was able to stand against him or correct him. However, although he was able to hide the details of his conspiracy from the king (cp. Esther 3:8), the ink upon the letters that were sent out to the king’s provinces in his name was barely dry, before the citizens of Shushan heard and were in distress over the king’s command (Esther 3:13-15).
Nevertheless, once the foolish Haman had fallen from grace, even the king’s servants, who were daily at his command, were able to inform the king of Haman’s activities, which he did at his own home (cp. Esther 7:9). Upon hearing Esther’s request, the king became enraged, and rising from the banquet of wine, Ahasuerus withdrew to the palace gardens, just outside the room. When he did, the astonished Haman also arose from the table, but instead of following the king to plead for his life, he entreated the queen, for he realized the king had determined a catastrophic end for him (Esther 7:7).
When Ahasuerus returned Haman’s situation went from bad to worse, because the king was astonished to find that Haman had fallen upon the queen to beg for mercy, but Ahasuerus understood his behavior as assaulting the queen, and in his determination to slay the whole Jewish nation, he thought to begin with Esther, the king’s wife (Esther 7:8)! Therefore, Ahasuerus shouted: “Will he also assault the queen, while she is with me in the palace?” While the words were yet in his mouth, the king’s servants covered Haman’s face.
Immediately, Harbonah, one of the king’s eunuchs, told Ahasuerus that Haman had just finished building the gallows intended for Mordecai, which stood 75 feet high near his home. Mordecai was the same, whom the king had finished honoring earlier that day for saving the king’s life. When he had heard this, Ahasuerus commanded that Haman be impaled there on the gallows he built to execute Mordecai (Esther 7:9)!
Haman was probably executed on the same day the queen revealed her national identity. This means that the banquet must have been held sometime in the afternoon, between the morning, when Haman led Mordecai throughout the city square to honor him at the king’s command, and the hour when Haman was impaled, atop the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai (cp. Esther 6:11). Thus, it was done as the king demanded. Haman, the Jews enemy, came to his abrupt and pitiless end, and the king’s wrath appeased (Esther 7:10)!
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