On the seventh day of his banquet the king was drinking and feeling happy, so he called in the seven eunuchs who were his personal servants, Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas.

While they were still talking, the palace eunuchs arrived in a hurry to take Haman to Esther's banquet.

Jehu looked up and shouted, "Who is on my side?" Two or three palace officials looked down at him from a window,

So his wife and all his friends suggested, "Why don't you have a gallows built, seventy-five feet tall? Tomorrow morning you can ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it, and then you can go to the banquet happy." Haman thought this was a good idea, so he had the gallows built.

Terror will strike like a sudden flood; a wind in the night will blow them away;

it will blow down on them without pity while they try their best to escape.

But in the traps they set for others, they themselves get caught.

So they are punished by their own evil and are hurt by their own violence.

But destruction will catch them before they know it; they will be caught in their own trap and fall to their destruction!

May the wicked fall into their own traps while I go by unharmed.

Honesty makes a good person's life easier, but the wicked will cause their own downfall.

Righteousness rescues those who are honest, but those who can't be trusted are trapped by their own greed.

During the time that Mordecai held office in the palace, Bigthana and Teresh, two of the palace eunuchs who guarded the entrance to the king's rooms, became hostile to King Xerxes and plotted to assassinate him.

There was an investigation, and it was discovered that the report was true, so both men were hanged on the gallows. The king ordered an account of this to be written down in the official records of the empire.

The part they read included the account of how Mordecai had uncovered a plot to assassinate the king---the plot made by Bigthana and Teresh, the two palace eunuchs who had guarded the king's rooms.

But Esther went to the king, and the king issued written orders with the result that Haman suffered the fate he had planned for the Jews---he and his sons were hanged from the gallows.

He ran to him, stood over him, took Goliath's sword out of its sheath, and cut off his head and killed him. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they ran away.

But in the traps they set for others, they themselves get caught.

So they are punished by their own evil and are hurt by their own violence.

The heathen have dug a pit and fallen in; they have been caught in their own trap.

The LORD has revealed himself by his righteous judgments, and the wicked are trapped by their own deeds.

But destruction will catch them before they know it; they will be caught in their own trap and fall to their destruction!

I once knew someone wicked who was a tyrant; he towered over everyone like a cedar of Lebanon;

but later I passed by, and he wasn't there; I looked for him, but couldn't find him.

They are instantly destroyed; they go down to a horrible end.

Honesty makes a good person's life easier, but the wicked will cause their own downfall.

Righteousness rescues those who are honest, but those who can't be trusted are trapped by their own greed.

All of us who administer your empire---the supervisors, the governors, the lieutenant governors, and the other officials---have agreed that Your Majesty should issue an order and enforce it strictly. Give orders that for thirty days no one be permitted to request anything from any god or from any human being except from Your Majesty. Anyone who violates this order is to be thrown into a pit filled with lions.

Then the king gave orders to arrest all those who had accused Daniel, and he had them thrown, together with their wives and children, into the pit filled with lions. Before they even reached the bottom of the pit, the lions pounced on them and broke all their bones.