Esther 7
1 The king and Haman came to drink with Queen Esther.
2 On the second day as well, at the wine banquet, the king said to Esther, “What is your request, Queen Esther? It will be granted to you. And what is your petition? Even up to half the kingdom, and it will be done.”
3 Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it seems good to the king, let my life be granted to me as my request, and my people as my petition.
4 For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed, and wiped out. If we had been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept silent, because the adversary would not be worth the king’s loss.”
5 King Ahasuerus spoke and said to Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is this one who dared to do such a thing?”
6 Esther said, “An adversary and enemy: this wicked Haman!” Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
7 The king rose in his fury, left the wine banquet, and went to the palace garden. Haman stood to plead for his life with Queen Esther, because he saw that the king had already decided to bring disaster on him.
8 The king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. The king said, “Will he even force the queen, with me in the house?” The words had barely left the king’s mouth when they covered Haman’s face.
9 Harbona, one of the eunuchs, said in the king’s presence, “There is also the pole that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke well on the king’s behalf. It is standing at Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.” The king said, “Hang him on it.”
10 They hanged Haman on the pole he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king’s fury subsided.
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