Bible, King James Version
Esther
Esth.7
[1] So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the
queen.
[2] And the king said again unto Esther on the second day
at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and
it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall
be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.
[3] Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have
found favour in thy 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 bondmen and
bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not
countervail the king's damage.
[5] Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther
the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his
heart to do so?
[6] And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this
wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the
queen.
[7] And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his
wrath went into the palace garden: and 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 was fallen upon the
bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the
queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the
king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
[9] And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the
king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had
made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in
the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
[10] So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had
prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
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