Haman’s ten sons

Esther 9: 13: Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

The story of Esther and the attempted extermination of the Jewish people was repeated again in modern times with the rise of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler had hatched a plan for the final solution to the Jewish question that he made into reality via the horrors of the Holocaust. When World War Two ended, 22 Nazis were rounded up and put on trial in Nuremburg, Germany. The verdict of the court found eleven of the Nazis sentenced to death by hanging, however, Herman Goering committed suicide in his cell, leaving ten Nazis for the gallows.

When Esther pronounced what was to be done with the bodies of Haman’s already dead sons, she used the word “tomorrow” for the timing of their hanging. “Tomorrow” does not just refer to the next day, but to a prophetic time in the distant future when a similar happening would occur again. On October 16, 1946, ten Nazis were hung on the gallows.

Alfred Jodl
Alfred Rosenberg
Artur Seyss-Inquart
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Fritz Saukel
Hans Frank
Joachim Von Ribbentrop
Julius Streicher
Wilhelm Frick
Wilhelm Keitel