Esther 7
Esther’s Plea
1Now the king and Haman came to drink wine with Esther the queen. 2And the king said to Esther on the second day also ▼▼ Lit at the banquet of wine
as they drank their wine at the banquet, b“What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? cEven to half of the kingdom it shall be done.” 3Then Queen Esther replied, d“If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me as my petition, and my people as my request; 4for ewe have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, fto be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the ▼▼ Or enemy could not compensate for the loss
trouble would not be commensurate with the ▼▼ Or damage
annoyance to the king.” 5Then King Ahasuerus ▼▼ Lit said and said to
asked Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, ▼▼ Lit whose heart has been filled
who would presume to do thus?” 6Esther said, k“A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen. Haman Is Hanged
7The king arose lin his anger from ▼▼ Lit the banquet of wine
drinking wine and went into nthe palace garden; but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm had been determined against him by the king. 8Now when the king returned from the palace garden into the ▼▼ Lit house of the banquet of wine
place where they were drinking wine, Haman was falling on pthe couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen with me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face. 9Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were before the king said, “Behold indeed, qthe gallows standing at Haman’s house fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai rwho spoke good on behalf of the king!” And the king said, “Hang him on it.” 10 sSo they hanged Haman on the ▼▼ Lit tree
gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, uand the king’s anger subsided.
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