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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Bring Haman at once,&#8221; the king said, &#8220;so that we may do what Esther asks.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.5.5"><span class="content">So the king and Haman went to the banquet Esther had prepared. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EST.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">As they were drinking wine, the king again asked Esther, &#8220;Now what is your petition? It will be given you. And what is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EST.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EST.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Esther replied, &#8220;My petition and my request is this: </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EST.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If the king regards me with favor and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king&#8217;s question.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Haman&#8217;s Rage Against Mordecai</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EST.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EST.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Haman went out that day happy and in high spirits. But when he saw Mordecai at the king&#8217;s gate and observed that he neither rose nor showed fear in his presence, he was filled with rage against Mordecai. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EST.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EST.5.10"><span class="content">Calling together his friends and Zeresh, his wife, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EST.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Haman boasted to them about his vast wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and officials. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EST.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;And that&#8217;s not all,&#8221; Haman added. &#8220;I&#8217;m the only person Queen Esther invited to accompany the king to the banquet she gave. And she has invited me along with the king tomorrow. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EST.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But all this gives me no satisfaction as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at the king&#8217;s gate.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EST.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EST.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">His wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, &#8220;Have a pole set up, reaching to a height of fifty cubits,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 75 feet or about 23 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai impaled on it. Then go with the king to the banquet and enjoy yourself.&#8221; This suggestion delighted Haman, and he had the pole set up.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EST.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EST.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">It was found recorded there that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king&#8217;s officers who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EST.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EST.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;What honor and recognition has Mordecai received for this?&#8221; the king asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EST.6.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Nothing has been done for him,&#8221; his attendants answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EST.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EST.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The king said, &#8220;Who is in the court?&#8221; Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to speak to the king about impaling Mordecai on the pole he had set up for him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EST.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">His attendants answered, &#8220;Haman is standing in the court.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.6.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Bring him in,&#8221; the king ordered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EST.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Haman entered, the king asked him, &#8220;What should be done for the man the king delights to honor?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EST.6.6"><span class="content">Now Haman thought to himself, &#8220;Who is there that the king would rather honor than me?&#8221; </span></span></div>
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