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Esther Reveals Haman's Plot and He Is Hanged

Esther 7:1-10

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Chapter 7
1 The king and Haman came to drink with Queen Esther. 2 The king said to Esther, also on the second day at the wine feast, "What is your request, Queen Esther? It will be given to you. And what is your petition? Up to half the kingdom, and it will be done." 3 And Esther the queen answered and said, "If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it is good to the king, may you give my life as my request and my people as my petition." 4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to destroy, to kill, and to perish; but if we had been sold as servants and handmaids, I would have kept silent, for the distress is not worth the damage to the king. 5 And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, this one who has filled his heart to do such a thing?" 6 And Esther said, "The man, the adversary and enemy—Haman, this evil one!" And Haman trembled before the king and the queen. 7 And the king rose in his wrath from the wine drinking to the garden of the house, and Haman stood to seek for his life from Esther the queen, for he saw that the evil was finished for him with the king. 8 And the king returned from the garden of the house to the house of the wine feast, and Haman had fallen on the couch on which Esther was reclining. And the king said, "Will he even ravish the queen with me in the house?" The word went out from the mouth of the king, and Haman's face was covered. 9 And Harbona, one of the eunuchs, said before the king, "Also behold, the wood that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good concerning the king, stands in Haman's house, fifty cubits high." And the king said, "Hang him on it." 10 And they hanged Haman on the wood that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king's wrath subsided.