Esther

7 So the king and Haman came in, to banquet with Esther the queen.

2 Then said the king unto Esther on the second day also during the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, Queen Esther, that it may be granted thee? and what is thy request—unto the half of the kingdom—that it may be performed?

3 Then answered Esther the queen and said, If I have found favour in thine eyes, O king, and if unto the king it seem good let my life be granted me as my petition, and my people as my request;

4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain and to be caused to perish. If indeed for bondmen and for bondwomen we had been sold I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have made good the damage to the king.

5 Then spake King Ahasuerus, and said unto Esther the queen,—Who is he now and where is he, whose heart is set to act thus?

6 And Esther said, A man who is an adversary and enemy, this wicked Haman. And Haman was terrified, before the king and the queen.

7 Now the king arising in his wrath from the banquet of wine, and going into the palace garden Haman stood to make request for his life from Esther the queen, for he saw that ruin was determined against him by the king.

8 When the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine Haman was lying prostrate upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even dare to force the queen while I am in the house? No sooner had the word gone forth out of the mouth of the king than the face of Haman they had covered.

9 Then said Harbonah—one of the eunuchs before the king—Yea lo! the gallows that Haman made ready for Mordecai who had spoken well for the king is standing in Haman’s house, of a height of fifty cubits. Then said the king, Hang him thereon.

10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai,—and the wrath of the king was appeased.