Esther 7

Esther requests the Jews be spared

So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther’s feast. On the second day as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king turned to Esther again and asked,

“What did you wish to ask me, Queen Esther? Whatever you ask will be granted to you, even up to half of my kingdom. Just let me know what your request is.”

Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, oh king, and if you wish, then I my request is that you would spare the lives of me and my people. My people and I have been sold to be destroyed, killed, and annihilated. If we would have been sold merely as slaves, then I wouldn’t have said anything, because our affliction wouldn’t have been worth the king’s loss.”

Haman is hanged

Then King Ahasuerus asked Esther, “Tell me, who dares to do such a thing??”

Esther replied, “Our enemy, this wicked Haman!” Then Haman became terrified in front of the king and queen.

The king angrily stood up, stopped drinking, and stormed into the palace garden while Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther since he realized that the king thought Haman was problematic. When king returned from the palace garden, Haman was plopping on the couch where Esther was.

The king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of the king in his own palace?”

As the words left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face. Then Harbona (one of the castrated guards) said, “Ironically, the gallows that Haman prepared for Mordecai who saved the king is still standing at Haman’s house: 75 feet tall.”

The king said, “Hang him on that.”

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.

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