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2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, |What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. 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 would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's loss.| 5 Then King Achshayarsh said to Esther the queen, |Who is he, and where is he who 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. 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 had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, |Will he even assault the queen in front of 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 were with the king said, |Look, the gallows seventy-three feet eight inches high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman's house.| The king said, |Hang him on it.| 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. Esther 7:2-10, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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