﻿Esther.
Chapter 7.
The king and Haman came to drink with Queen Esther. 
On this second day, as they drank wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It will be granted you. And what is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be done.” 
Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. 
For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, killed, and annihilated. If we had been sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, for the adversary cannot compensate for the king's loss.” 
King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared in his heart to do this?” 
Esther said, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman!” Haman was terrified before the king and queen. 
The king rose in anger from the wine banquet and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he saw that the king had determined disaster against him. 
The king returned from the palace garden to the wine banquet hall, and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. The king said, “Will he even rape the queen while I am here in the house?” As soon as these words left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. 
Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs before the king, said, “There is also the stake Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke in the king's favor. It is standing at Haman's house, about seventy-five feet high.” The king said, “Hang him on it!” 
So they hanged Haman on the stake he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's anger subsided. 
