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Esther

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1 So the king and Haman came to ban­quet with Es­ther the queen. 2 And the king said again unto Es­ther on the sec­ond day at the ban­quet of wine, What is thy pe­ti­tion, queen Es­ther? and it shall be grant­ed thee: and what is thy re­quest? and it shall be per­formed, even to the half of the king­dom. 3 Then Es­ther the queen an­swered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be giv­en me at my pe­ti­tion, and my peo­ple at my re­quest: 4 For we are sold, I and my peo­ple, to be de­stroyed, to be slain, and to per­ish. But if we had been sold for bond­men and bond­wom­en, I had held my tongue, al­though the en­e­my could not coun­ter­vail the king's dam­age. 5 Then the king Aha­suerus an­swered and said unto Es­ther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst pre­sume in his heart to do so? 6 And Es­ther said, The ad­ver­sary and en­e­my is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid be­fore the king and the queen. 7 And the king aris­ing from the ban­quet of wine in his wrath went into the palace gar­den: and 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. 8 Then the king re­turned out of the palace gar­den into the place of the ban­quet of wine; and Haman was fall­en upon the bed where­on Es­ther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also be­fore me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they cov­ered Haman's face. 9 And Har­bonah, one of the cham­ber­lains, said be­fore the king, Be­hold al­so, the gal­lows fifty cu­bits high, which Haman had made for Morde­cai, who had spo­ken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him there­on. 10 So they hanged Haman on the gal­lows that he had pre­pared for Morde­cai. Then was the king's wrath paci­fied.