Chapter 7

¹ So the king and Haman went in to drink with the queen. ² And the king said to Esther at the banquet on the second day, What is it, queen Esther? and what [is] thy request, and what [is] thy petition? and it shall be [done] for thee, to the half of my kingdom. ³ And she answered and said, If I have found favor in the sight of the king, let [my] life be granted to my petition, and my people to my request. ⁴ For both I and my people are sold for destruction, and pillage, and slavery; [both] we and our children for bondmen and bondwomen: and I consented not to it, for the slanderer [is] not worthy of the king’s palace. ⁵ And the king said, Who [is] this that has dared to do this thing? ⁶ And Esther said, The adversary [is] Haman, this wicked man. Then Haman was troubled before the king and the queen.

Est 7:1-6

⁷ And the king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden: and Haman began to entreat the queen; for he saw that he was in an evil case.

Est 7:7

⁸ And the king returned from the garden; and Haman had fallen upon the bed, entreating the queen. And the king said, Wilt thou even force [my] wife in my house? And when Haman heard it, he changed countenance. ⁹ And Bugathan, one of the chamberlains, said to the king, Behold, Haman has also prepared a gallows for Mordecai, who spoke concerning the king, and a gallows of fifty cubits high has been set up in the premises of Haman. And the king said, Let him be hanged thereon. ¹⁰ So Haman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mordecai: and then the king’s wrath was appeased.

Est 7:8-10