Passage Research
Esther 7 — Sermon Preparation
At Esther's second banquet she exposes Haman's plot against her people; the king orders Haman hanged on the very gallows he built for Mordecai. Below is a research summary for Esther 7, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 10
- verses
- 187 / 92
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 4
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
Esther 7 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הָמָן | Hâmân | H2001 | 9 | Haman |
| אֶסְתֵּר | ʼEçtêr | H635 | 8 | Ester |
| מַלְכָּה | malkâh | H4436 | 7 | queen |
| מִשְׁתֶּה | mishteh | H4960 | 3 | drink, drinking |
| בִּיתָן | bîythân | H1055 | 2 | palace |
| יַיִן | yayin | H3196 | 3 | wine, intoxication |
| גִּנָּה | ginnâh | H1594 | 2 |
How preachers through history handled this text
4 public-domain excerpts on Esther 7, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“We are now to attend the second banquet to which the king and Haman were invited: and there, I. Esther presents her petition to the king for her life and the life of her people, ver. 1-4. II. She plainly tells the king that Haman is the man who designed her ruin and the ruin of all her friends, ver. 5, 6. III. The king thereupon gave orders for the hanging of Haman upon the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai, which was done accordingly, ver. 7-10. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on Esther 7:1–30 (Public Domain)
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