Esther 7:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the king arising from the banquet in his wrath As disdaining the company and sight of so ungrateful and audacious a person; went into the palace-garden To cool and allay his troubled and inflamed spirits, being in a great commotion by a variety of passions boiling and struggling within him; and to consider with himself the heinousness of Haman's crime, the mischief which himself had like to have done by his own rashness, and what punishment was fit to be inflicted on so vile a miscreant. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther He first stood up, and then fell down at her feet, to beg she would save his life, and take all he had. They that are most haughty, insolent, and imperious, when they are in power and prosperity, are commonly the most abject and poor-spirited, on a reverse of condition and circumstances. Esther's sworn enemy now owns that he lies at her mercy, and begs his life at her hand. Thus did God regard the low estate of his handmaiden. For he saw that there was evil determined against him This he discerned by the violent commotion of the king's mind, apparent in his countenance, and by his going out of the room in a great rage.