[1] So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. [2] The
king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is
your petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted you: and what is your
request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed. [3] Then
Esther the queen answered, If I have found favor in your 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
bondservants and bondmaids, I had held my peace, although the adversary
could not have compensated for the king`s damage. [5] Then spoke the king
Ahasuerus and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that
dared presume in his heart to do so? [6] Esther said, An adversary and an
enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and
the queen. [7] The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine [and
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 on the couch whereon
Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen before me in
the house? As the word went out of the king`s mouth, they covered Haman`s
face. [9] Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains who were before the
king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for
Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. 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.
