1So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. 2The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." 3Then Esther the queen answered, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. 4For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's loss." 5Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, "Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?" 6Esther said, "An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. 7The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. 8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?" As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. 9Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, "Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman's house." The king said, "Hang him on it!" 10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
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Esther 7 — Persian Exile
Unknown — Jewish court chronicler during Persian exile. Set in Susa, royal palace banquet hall. At her second banquet, Esther finally reveals her true request — and her Jewish identity — pleading for her life and her people's survival. The king erupts in fury when he realizes Haman has manipulated him into ordering genocide against his own queen's people. Haman, in desperation, throws himself on Esther's couch to beg for mercy, but the king sees this as an assault on his wife.
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