Esther 7
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1So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2#Mk 6.23. And on the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.” 3Then Queen Esther 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. 4For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.” 5Then King Ahasu-erus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, that would presume to do this?” 6And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was in terror before the king and the queen. 7And the king rose from the feast in wrath and went into the palace garden; but Haman stayed to beg his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king. 8And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was; and the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the words left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face. 9Then said Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, “Moreover, the gallows which Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing in Haman's house, fifty cubits high.” 10And the king said, “Hang him on that.” So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.
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Esther 7
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Haman Hanged Instead of Mordecai
1So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther. 2And on the second day, #Esth. 5:6at the banquet of wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!”
3Then Queen Esther answered and said, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. 4For we have been #Esth. 3:9, 4:7sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. Had we been sold as #Deut. 28:68male and female slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could never compensate for the king’s loss.”
5So King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing?”
6And Esther said, “The adversary and #Esth. 3:10enemy is this wicked Haman!”
So Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
7Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king. 8When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across #Esth. 1:6the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?”
As the word left the king’s mouth, they #Job 9:24covered Haman’s face. 9Now #Esth. 1:10Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, “Look! #Esth. 5:14; (Ps. 7:16; Prov. 11:5, 6)The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke #Esth. 6:2good on the king’s behalf, is standing at the house of Haman.”
Then the king said, “Hang him on it!”
10So #(Ps. 7:16; 94:23; Prov. 11:5, 6)they #Ps. 37:35, 36; Dan. 6:24hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided.
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