A Kingly Tantrum

The need for valor was not yet over for Esther. With the banquet she had managed to bring together the one man who had caused all of the mischief and the one who could bring it to an end. Yet, there were no assurances. She was trusting her fate to God and to a man who had been her husband for only a few months. As the banquet gets underway the king’s curiosity is stirred: So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther’s banquet, and as they were drinking wine on the second day, the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.” ~Esther 7:1,2 The king has now made the same offer three times. If Esther asks to rule half the kingdom it’s fine with King Xerxes.

And now the moment has come. It is time for the big reveal: Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me my life—this is my petition. And spare my people—this is my request. For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king.” ~Esther 7:3,4  Again, a lovely place to insert a swear word into Haman’s thoughts were I so inclined. He presumed to have everything figured out  – every “i” dotted and every “t” crossed – but his intel was lacking. The queen was a Jew!
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Now everything hinged upon the reaction of the king. With her request she was reminding the king that she had been culled from the chattel of servitude. She was a slave queen. He could have her by force and still allow the massacre to take place. Or, he could have her disposed and simply move on to the next available lass in his harem. What would he do? The reaction of King Xerxes was even more than she had hoped for: King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is he? Where is he—the man who has dared to do such a thing?” ~Esther 7:5  The king’s ire was up. In threatening the Jewish people his queen had been threatened. He didn’t take kindly to having his choice of queen questioned.

Having gotten the king to this place of agitation, she now gives up a name and does so with no small amount of invective. It’s a defining moment that puts an either/or choice before the king: Esther said, “An adversary and enemy! This vile Haman!” ~Esther 7:6  Esther had thought this through. The word she used to describe Haman (vile), in the Hebrew is: רָעַע(rä·ah’). It is used to define a form of evil that shatters, that breaks a thing to pieces. And that had been Haman’s intention. One obstinate Jew or a million Jews – in didn’t matter to Haman – they all deserved to die because of the civil disobedience of Mordecai. A shattering would soon take place but it would not involve Mordecai, Esther or the Hebrew people.