¹So the king and Haman [magnificent] came to banquet with Ester [star] the queen.

²And the king said again unto Ester [star] on the second day at the banquet of wine, What [is] youi petition, queen Ester [star] ? and it shall be granted youi : and what [is] youi request? and it shall be performed, [even] to the half of the kingdom.

³Then Ester [star] the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in youi 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 bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail (be or make equal; compensate) the king’s damage.

⁵Then the king Achashverosh [I will be silent and poor] answered and said unto Ester [star] the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that dared (was bold enough) presume in his heart to do so?

⁶And Ester [star] said, The adversary and enemy [is] this wicked Haman [magnificent] . Then Haman [magnificent] was afraid before the king and the queen.

⁷And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath [went] into the palace garden: and Haman [magnificent] stood up to make request for his life to Ester [star] 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 [magnificent] was fallen upon the bed whereon Ester [star] [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 [magnificent] ’s face.

⁹And Harvonah [ass-driver] , one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallow (to approve, commend, accept) s fifty cubits high, which Haman [magnificent] had made for Mordekhai [little man] , who had spoken good for the king, stands in the house of Haman [magnificent] . Then the king said, Hang him thereon.

¹⁰So they hanged Haman [magnificent] on the gallow (to approve, commend, accept) s that he had prepared for Mordekhai [little man] . Then was the king’s wrath pacified.