Est 7:4-10 | NASB2020 | STEP | for we have been sold , I and my people , to be destroyed , killed , and eliminated . Now if we had only been sold as slaves , men and women , I would have kept silent , because the distress would not be sufficient reason to burden the king .”

Esther 7:4-10

4 for ^awe have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, ^bkilled, and eliminated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have kept silent, because the distress would not be sufficient reason to burden the king.” 5 Then King Ahasuerus ^{▼▼Lit said and said to}asked Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, ^{▼▼Lit whose heart has filled him}who would presume to do such a thing?” 6 And Esther said, “ ^eA foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.

Haman Is Hanged

7 The king then got up ^fin his anger from ^{▼▼Lit the banquet of wine}drinking wine and went into ^hthe 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. 8 Now when the king returned from the palace garden into the ^{▼▼Lit house of the banquet of wine}place where they had been drinking wine, Haman was falling on ^jthe 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. 9 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who stood before the king, said, “Indeed, behold, ^kthe wooden gallows standing at Haman’s house ^{▼▼About 75 ft. or 23 m}fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai ^mwho spoke good in behalf of the king!” And the king said, “Hang him on it.” 10 ⁿSo they hanged Haman on the wooden gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, ^oand the king’s anger subsided.