Esther 7:10

The execution of Haman 'on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai' is the narrative culmination of the Book of Esther's ironic reversal structure — the instrument of destruction prepared for the righteous becomes the instrument of the schemer's own destruction. The 'then was the king's wrath pacified' at the chapter's close suggests that Haman's death functions as a resolution of the narrative tension created by his genocidal plot — justice restores the cosmic order disrupted by his murderous ambition. The Haman-reversal motif is one of the most theologically significant in wisdom literature: Proverbs 26:27 ('he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him') and Psalm 7:15-16 ('he made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made') articulate the same principle of sin returning on the sinner. Galatians 6:7 ('whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap') is Paul's New Testament expression of the same moral-metaphysical law.