Esth 7
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So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
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And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine: 'Whatever
thy petition, queen Esther, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request, even
to the half of the kingdom, it shall be performed.'
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;
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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 peace, for the adversary
is not worthy that the king be endamaged.'
5
Then spoke the king Ahasuerus and said unto Esther the queen: 'Who is he, and where
is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?'
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And Esther said: 'An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman.' Then Haman was
terrified before the king and the queen.
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And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace
garden; but Haman remained to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he
saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
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Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine;
and Haman was fallen upon 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 that were before the king: 'Behold also,
the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath made for Mordecai, who spoke good
for the king, standeth in the house of Haman.' And the king said: 'Hang him thereon.'
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So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the
king's wrath assuaged.