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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