Queen Esther: Lesson Eight

Pride is never satisfied.

Haman bragged about his riches, his children, and how the king had promoted him.

Esther 5:11 (KJV): And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Yet he said all of it was worth nothing as long as Mordecai sat at the king's gate.

Esther 5:13 (KJV): Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

So he built a gallows fifty cubits high for Mordecai.

Esther 5:14 (KJV): Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

The Bible already told us where pride leads.

Proverbs 16:18 (KJV): Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.