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1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with
Esther the queen. 2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the
banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you.
What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”
3 Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have
found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be
given me at my petition, and my people at my request. 4 For we are sold, I
and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been
sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the
adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen,
“Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”
6 Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even
this wicked Haman!”
Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. 7 The
king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace
garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he
saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. 8 Then the
king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine;
and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will
he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of
the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
9 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with
the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for
Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.”
The king said, “Hang him on it!”
10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he
had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.
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