44 However, they presumptuously went toward the top of the mountain,+ but the ark of Jehovah’s covenant and Moses did not move away from the middle of the camp.+

4 Later the king said: “Who is in the courtyard?” Now Haʹman had come into the outer courtyard+ of the king’s house* to speak to the king about having Morʹde·cai hanged on the stake that he had prepared for him.+