The Prophecy of Ester Fulfilled: Ten Sons of Haman Hanged in 1946!

The Prophecy of Ester Fulfilled
Ten Sons of Haman Hanged in 1946!
By James Scott Trimm

I am sure you all know the Purim story as found in the Book of Ester, but there is an amazing prophecy buried in the original Hebrew of this book that you may not have heard of. In the Book of Ester Haman the son of Hamdata wanted "to destroy, to kill, and to exterminate" all Jews. In the end however the Jews defeated Haman and those who wished to destroy them. The climax of their victory was the execution of the ten sons of Haman, whose names the book details.
An interesting dialogue takes place between Queen Esther and Ahasverus just a few verses later:

12 And the king said unto Ester the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five
hundred men in Shushan the castle, and the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done
in the rest of the king's provinces? Now whatever your petition, it shall be granted you,
and whatever your request further, it shall be done.
13 Then said Ester, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan,
to do tomorrow also, according unto this day's decree: and let Haman's ten sons be
hanged upon the gallows.
14 And the king commanded it so to be done, and a decree was given out in Shushan: and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
(Ester 9:12-14 HRV)

Esther's request seems odd. The ten sons of Haman had already been killed, why bother to hang them?
In the writings of the Rabbis and the Midrashim, we find several thoughts that could elaborate on this:
On the word "tomorrow," in Esther's request, the Rabbis comment:

"There is a tomorrow that is now, and a tomorrow which is later." (Tanchuma Bo 13 and Rashi on Exodus 13:14).

In other words, Esther was prophesying that the hanging of Haman's ten sons would not be s single episode in history, but would be repeated at a future “tomorrow” as well.
Lets look at the original Hebrew of the Book of Ester...we cab clearly see, at first glance, that the list of Haman's sons appears on a separate page, written in a prominent, special manner:

The left-hand column contains the word v'et (and) ten times. According to the Thirty Two Rules of Eliezer, the word v'et is used to denote replication. Thus, we may conclude that another ten people are also to be hung in addition to Haman's ten sons.
Who would these ten men be?
Lets now go forward in time 2,300 years forward in time.... Special newspaper editions on October 16, 1946 reported the execution of ten Nazi war criminals found guilty by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.
It should be noted Adolf Hitler banned the observance of Purim, declaring it a capital offense to possess a copy of the Book of Esther. In a speech made on November 10, 1938, (the day after kristallnacht), A prominant Nazi named Julius Streicher said that just as "the Jew butchered 75,000 Persians" in one night, the same fate would have befallen the German people had the Jews succeeded in inciting a war against Germany; the "Jews would have instituted a new Purim festival in Germany."
As a matter of fact many of the Nazi attacks against Jews often coincided with Purim. On Purim 1942, ten Jews were hanged in Zduńska Wola supposedly to avenge the hanging of Haman's ten sons. In a similar incident in 1943, the Nazis shot 10 Jews from the Piotrków ghetto. On Purim eve that same year, over 100 Jewish doctors and their families were shot by the Nazis in Czestochowa. The following day, Jewish doctors were taken from Radom and shot nearby in Szydlowiec.
In an apparent connection made by Hitler between his Nazi regime and the role of Haman, he stated in a speech made on January 30, 1944, that if the Nazis were defeated, the Jews could celebrate "a second Purim".
Amazingly, this outcome is hinted at in the Book of Esther!...
According to Nachmanides (the introduction to his commentary on Genesis) any change from the usual way of writing a word or letter indicates some hidden meaning in a text.
If we examine the list of Haman's sons, we notice that three letters are written smaller:
the taf of Parshandata
the shin of Parmashta
the zayin of Vizata
(The enlarged vav of Vizata may refer to the sixth millenium.)
The three letters together form taf-shin-zayin, the Jewish year 5707 (1946 C.E.), the year that the ten Nazi criminals were executed.
Of the twenty three Nazi war criminals on trial in Nuremberg, eleven were in fact sentenced to execution by hanging. But just two hours before the sentence was due to be carried out, Goering committed suicide--so that only 10 descendents of Amalek were hung, thus fulfilling the request of Esther:
"let Haman's ten sons be hanged."
Furthermore, although the trial was conducted by a military tribunal, the sentence handed down was not the normal death by firing squad, or by electric chair as practiced in the U.S.A. However, the court specifically prescribed hanging, exactly as in Esther's prophetic request:
"let Haman's ten sons be hanged."
None of this was lost on Julius Streicher....[as The New York Herald Tribune of October 16, 1946 reported after he ascended to the gallows] "With burning hatred in his eyes, Streicher looked down at the witnesses and shouted his last words as he was hanged: "Purim Fest 1946!"...
If we examine the calendar for that month. The date of the execution (October 16, 1946) fell on the Jewish festival of "Hoshana Rabba" (21 Tishrei). This is the traditional day all of Elohim’s verdicts are sealed.

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Comment by Solomon Avar on February 22, 2012 at 11:19am

I've already posted about this topic.
http://nazarenespace.com/profiles/blogs/the-bible-codes-esthers

THE BIBLE CODES - ESTHER'S PROPHECY OF THE "10 SONS OF HAMAN"... And the Nazis...

ESTHER'S PROPHECY OF THE "10 SONS OF HAMAN"

In the book of Esther, we find the story of Haman, a man who hated the Jews and tried to exterminate them. This hate arose because Mordecai, a Jew, would not pay homage or bow down to Haman, a high
official in the Persian empire. But instead of taking vengeance on
Mordecai alone, Haman instead sought to destroy all the Jews throughout
the Persian kingdom.

To accomplish this, he persuaded King Ahasuerus of Persia to issue a decree to annihilate all Jews in the Persian provinces, both young and old, women and children. Esther, the wife of King Ahasuerus, was a Jew
and the cousin of Mordecai, who had raised her. She told King Ahasuerus
that Mordecai, who had earlier protected the king by reporting a plot
against him, was her relative. She also told the king that Haman's
wicked plan was against her people, and beseeched the king to allow the
Jews to defend themselves. King Ahasuerus had Haman hanged on a gallows
he had intended for Mordecai, and he permitted the Jews in every city
to gather together and protect themselves against those who tried to
assault them.

Now let's pick up the story in the 9th chapter of Esther:

ESTHER 9:1 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day, the time came for the king's command and his decree to
be executed. On the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to
overpower them, the opposite occurred, in that the Jews themselves
overpowered those who hated them. 2 The Jews gathered together in their
cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on
those who sought their harm. And no one could withstand them, because
fear of them fell upon all people. 3 And all the officials of the
provinces, the satraps, the governors, and all those doing the king's
work, helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them. 4
For Mordecai was great in the king's palace, and his fame spread
throughout all the provinces; for this man Mordecai became increasingly
prominent. 5 Thus the Jews defeated all their enemies with the stroke
of the sword, with slaughter and destruction, and did what they pleased
with those who hated them. 6 And in Shushan the citadel the Jews killed
and destroyed five hundred men. 7 Also Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, 8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, 9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vajezatha 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews they killed; but they did not lay a hand on the plunder. (NKJV)

We see that in addition to the 500 men who attacked them in Shushan, the Jews killed the 10 sons of Haman. However, Esther had another request of the king after these 10 sons of Haman had already died:

ESTHER 9:11 On that day the number of those who were killed in Shushan the citadel was brought to the king. 12 And the king said to Queen
Esther, "The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the citadel, and the ten sons of Haman.
What have t

Comment by Solomon Avar on February 22, 2012 at 11:20am: And the king said to Queen
Esther, "The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the citadel, and the ten sons of Haman.
What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? Now what is
your petition? It shall be granted to you. Or what is your further
request? It shall be done." 13 Then Esther said, "If it pleases the
king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do again
tomorrow according to today's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged on the gallows." 14 So the king commanded this to be done; the decree was issued in Shushan, and they hanged Haman's ten sons. (NKJV)

In memory of this great Jewish victory over their enemies, the Jews have celebrated the feast of Purim annually for over 2,000 years.

Esther's request to have the 10 sons of Haman hanged seems rather unusual, seeing that Haman's sons had already been killed. Dr. Moshe Katz addresses this request in his book, Computorah:

. . . The ten sons of Haman had already been killed, why bother to hang them?

In the writings of the Sages and the commentators, we find several ideas that could clarify this:

On the word "tomorrow", in Esther'srequest, the Sages comment:
"There is a tomorrow that is now, and a tomorrow which is later."
In other words, Esther was asking that the hanging of Haman's ten sons not remain an isolated episode in history, but should recur in
the future, as well. Yet, if this is the case, surely King Ahasverus was in no position to acceed to such a request. Only G-d could make and keep such a promise.

An examination of the sources solves this problem, too. According to the Sages, every time King Ahasverus is mentioned by name in the Book of Esther, the reference is to him; when the word [hey-mem-lamed-kaph] - the King, appears on its own, it refers to G-d.

Esther was therefore not addressing her request to Ahasverus, but to G-d- who granted her request:
"And the King commanded it be done." (Esther 9:14).
(Computorah, pp. 99-100)

If this request was for the future as well as for that time, has this prophecy of Esther been fulfilled? Does history record 10 additional "sons of Haman" who were hanged after trying to exterminate
the Jewish people?

Yes, both history and the Bible codes verify the fufillment of this incredible prophecy!

In Esther 3:1, we are told that Haman is an Agagite. Agag was the king of Amalek (1 Sam. 15:8). Therefore, Haman and his sons were Amalekites. Rabbi Elijah Solomon, a prominent Lithuanian rabbi of the
18th century known as "the great one of Vilna," held the tradition that
the German nation was descended from Amalek.

During World War II, the Nazis in Germany tried to wipe the Jewish race from the face of the earth. Six million Jews were killed by the Germans. After the end of the war, the surviving Nazi leaders were
tried at Nuremberg for this and other war crimes. These trials began on
November 20, 1945, for 22 German Nazi leaders.

On October 1, 1946, 12 of the German defendants were sentenced to death by hanging for their part in the atrocities committed against the Jews and others. One of those convicted was Martin Bormann, who was
sentenced in absentia. A second was Hermann Goering, who
committed suicide in his cell just hours before the executions by
taking cyanide poison. The remainin

Comment by Solomon Avar on February 22, 2012 at 11:21am: The remaining 10 Germans were hanged to death on
October 16, 1946.

Dr. Moshe Katz reveals some incredible information about this event:

. . . Since the trial was conducted by a military tribunal, the sentence handed down should have been death by firing squad, or by
electric chair as practiced in the U.S.A. However, the court
specifically prescribed hanging, exactly as in Esther's original request:
". . . let Haman's ten sons be hanged."
Though doubts may linger about the connection between the Book of Esther and the Nazi war criminals, the condemned Julius Streichercertainly had none.

Through some insight, Streicher appears to have grasped this link to Purim, as revealed by his final shout, with the noose about his neck, mere seconds before he was hanged.

. . . With burning hatred in his eyes, Streicher looked down at the witnesses and shouted: "Purim Fest 1946!" (Computorah, pp. 104-106)

These hangings took place on October 16, 1946. On the Jewish calendar, October 16, 1946, corresponded to 21 Tishri, 5707. This date was the last day of the Jewish feast of Sukkot, the day called Hoshana Rabba. The Jews believe that this day represents the coming time when God's verdicts of judgment will be sealed.

In the very passage of Scripture where Esther's prophetic request is recorded, we can find the future execution date of these descendants of Haman, both in the surface text and encoded within it. First, let's
look at how the date can be found in the surface text.

Jewish sages have long believed and taught that every variation of the surface text, whether it be the size of the letters themselves or a variant spelling of a word, has specific meaning. In some cases, that
meaning remains a mystery. But in the case of Esther's prophecy
regarding the hanging of Haman's 10 sons, history has finally unveiled
what was plainly there to see for 2,300 years.

Comment by Solomon Avar on February 22, 2012 at 11:21am: In Esther 9:7-9, we find a list of the 10 sons of Haman who were killed by the Jews. Below is the Hebrew text of these verses as it appears in the Tanakh. Remember, Hebrew reads from right to left.

As you can see, the names appear one above the other in the text. About this strange formatting, the Soncino Commentary states:

7-9. The Massorah prescribes that the names of the ten sons of Haman be written in a perpendicular column on the right-hand side of the page,
with the vav, i.e., and, on the left-hand side. This is
probably derived from the tradition that the ten sons were hanged on a
tall gallows, one above the other. . . . (The Five Megilloth, p. 179)

However, there may be another reason why these names are listed one above the other. As you can see by looking at the list of names, four letters (the tav in the first name, the shin and tav in the seventh name, and the zayin in the tenth name) appear smaller than the other letters.

Starting at the top of the passage, I've highlighted three of these four small letters in red. In the Hebrew language, letters can also represent numbers. Tav has a numerical value of 400, shin a numerical value of 300, and zayin a numerical value of 7. The tav, shin, and zayin, totaled from top to bottom, represent the number 707.

Using the Jewish method of recording years, the number 707 can represent the year 5707 on the Jewish calendar. Webster's NewWorld Hebrew Dictionary states: "In practice . . . the thousands are skipped and the Jewish year is referred to by quoting, in Jewish numerical symbols, the figure from
the hundreds down"Roman""> (p. xxiv, Introduction, The Jewish Calender).

As shown above, 5707 on the Jewish calendar was the year that the 10 Nazi war criminals were hanged for their crime of attempting to eradicate the Jewish people. For centuries Jews who read the book of
Esther had the future date for the fulfillment of her prophecy there in
plain sight, but it could not be deciphered until the event actually
occurred!

Comment by Solomon Avar on February 22, 2012 at 11:21am: The meaning of the fourth small letter, the tav in the seventh name, is still unknown. Perhaps it could signify "the end" of the sons of Haman, since tav is the final letter in the Hebrew alphabet.

In the past several years, historical information has been discovered encoded within the Hebrew text of the Old Testament using a method called equidistant letter sequencing (ELS). For those of you who
aren't familiar with this procedure, a good introductory article by Dr.
Jeffrey B. Satinover explaining the Bible codes (Divine Authorship?) appeared in the October 1995 issue of Bible Review.

Using the Bible codes ELS methodology to discover hidden codes in the 9th chapter of Esther, we can find another astonishing discovery. The day and month of the execution of the German "sons of Haman" is
encoded and hidden within the text, as shown below!

21 TISHRI
(white letters on red background)
The Jewish date "21 Tishri" (kaph-aleph-tav-shin-resh-yod)
is encoded at an ELS of 216, beginning in Esther 9:12 and ending in
Esther 9:27. This is the date upon which the 10 Nazi war criminals were
hanged. Statistically, the odds of this date occurring in this passage
by random chance are less than one in 1 million!

5707
(blue letters on light blue)
Running diagonally through "21 Tishri" is the Jewish year "5707" (tav-shin-zayin),
which corresponds to 1946. This year is found at an ELS of 442,
beginning in Esther 9:15 and ending in Esther 9:27. It shares the shin with "Tishri."

NAZI
(white letters on black)
Beginning underneath "hanged," the Hebrew transliteration of Nazi (nun-aleph-tsadi-yod) occurs. This word is found at an ELS of -650, beginning in Esther 9:19 and ending in Esther 8:9.

HANGED
(yellow letters on dark green)
On the top left part of the matrix, running vertically, the Hebrew word "hanged" (tav-lamed-vav-yod) appears at an ELS of 432. It begins in Esther 8:6 and ends in Esther 9:3.

AMALEKITE
(yellow letters on black)
Crossing the bottom of "21 Tishri" is the Hebrew word for "Amalekite" (ayin-mem-lamed-koph-yod).
This word is found at an ELS of -7, beginning in Esther 9:27 and ending
in Esther 9:26. According to Jewish tradition, the nation of Germany is
thought to have descended from the biblical Amalekites (Exo. 17:8-16).

ARYAN
purple letters on yellow)
Right above the top of "21 Tishri" is the Hebrew word "Aryan" (aleph-resh-yod). It appears at an ELS of 1 in Esther 9:8. Hitler's objective in eradicating the Jews was to have a pure Aryan race.

HAMAN
(white letters on blue)
At the top of the matrix, at an ELS of 1, the name "Haman" (hey-mem-nun) appears in Esther 8:3.

TEN
black letters on light blue)
Underneath "Haman," the Hebrew word "ten" (ayin-shin-resh-hey) appears at an ELS of 1 in Esther 8:12.

SONS
(white letters on maroon)
Underneath "ten," at an ELS of 20, the Hebrew word "sons" (beth-nun-yod) appears. It begins in Esther 8:15 and ends in Esther 8:16.

The information in the surface text, as well as that encoded underneath the apparent text, is incredible! Only God, in His infinite power, could have inspired these things to be recorded in the book of
Esther and then cause

Comment by Solomon Avar on February 22, 2012 at 11:22am: The information in the surface text, as well as that encoded underneath the apparent text, is incredible! Only God, in His infinite power, could have inspired these things to be recorded in the book of
Esther and then cause them to come to pass more than 2 millennia later.
Yet He tells us that He can do this in His word.

ISAIAH 46:9 . . . For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, 10 declaring the end from the beginning, and
from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, "My counsel
shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure" (NKJV)

The Eternal God is certainly awesome! Baruch Hashem!

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This article was originally written in July of 2000.