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the king and Haman went came to the feast with Queen Esther. 2 Once again, on the second day as they were drinking wine, the king asked Esther, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half of my kingdom, it will be done.”
3 Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favour with you, O king, and if it pleases the king, spare my life—this is my petition; and spare my people—this is my request. 4 For I and my people have been sold out for destruction, slaughter, and annihilation. But if we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, because no such trouble would justify burdening the king.”
5 King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, “Who is he? Where is this man who would devise such a thing?”
6 Esther said, “The adversary and enemy is this evil Haman.”
Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen. 7 The king was enraged by this, and he left his wine and went out from the banquet into the palace gardens. Immediately Haman realised that the king had already decided to destroy him, so he remained to beg Queen Esther for his life.
8 Just as the king returned from the palace gardens to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining.
The king exclaimed, “Will he even molest the queen while I am in the palace?”
As soon as these words left the kings mouth, they covered Haman’s face. 9 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had them built to hang Mordecai, who spoke up and saved the life of the king.”
The king commanded, “Hang him on it!” 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.