Sin Found Out and Punished

When Esther finally made known to the king her request, that her life and the lives of her people be spared from the death decreed upon them, she branded the whole plot of Haman as an act of selling her and her people to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And she was correct in this. Esther 3:9 makes it plain that Haman bought from the king the decree to exterminate all the Jews in the kingdom. When Esther finally made known to the king her request, that her life and the lives of her...