Esther 7 · אסתר

So the king and Haman came to drink with Ester the queen.

And the king said again to Ester on the second day at the wine drinking, What is thy petition, queen Ester? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed even to half the kingdom.

Then Ester 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:

for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. But if we had been sold merely for bondmen and bondwomen, I would have held my tongue, since the affliction would not have equalled the king’s damage.

Then the king Aĥashverosh answered and said to Ester the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?

And Ester said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was struck with terror before the king and the queen.

And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Ester the queen; for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.

Then the king returned out of the palace garden to the place of the wine drinking; and Haman was fallen upon the divan whereon Ester lay. Then the king said, Will he even assault the queen in my own presence in the house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

And Ḥarvona, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordokhay, who had spoken good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him on that.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordokhay. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.