ES-7:1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the

queen.

ES-7:2 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.

ES-7:3 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:

ES-7:4 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.

ES-7:5 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?

ES-7:6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy [is] this wicked

Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

ES-7:7 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.

ES-7:8 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.

ES-7:9 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.

ES-7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared

for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

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