Esther, Chapter 7:
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Verses from Esther, Chapter 7 of the book of Esther in the Bible.
Haman is hanged
- 1. King Xerxes and Haman went to the banquet with Queen Esther.
- 2. While they were drinking wine on the second day, the king asked Queen Esther again, “What is your request, Queen Esther? It will be granted. What's your wish? Even if it is half the kingdom, it will be granted to you.”
- 3. Then Queen Esther replied: “If I have found favor in the king's eyes, and if it pleases the king, spare my life and the lives of my people. This is my request and my desire.
- 4. Because I and my people were sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated. If only we were sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, for such anguish would not justify bothering the king.”
- . 5King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is responsible for this? Where is he?"
- 6. Esther replied: “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man, Haman.” In the presence of the king and queen, Haman was terrified.
- 7. The king, enraged, got up, abandoned the wine and went out into the palace garden. Haman, realizing that the king had already decided to condemn him, stayed to plead with Queen Esther for his life.
- 8. When the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, he saw Haman lying on the bed where Esther was lying. The king exclaimed: “He even dared to rape the queen in my presence, in my own home!” As soon as the king finished speaking, the servants covered Haman's face.
- 9. Then Harbonah, one of the officers in the king's service, said, "There is a gallows more than twenty meters high near Haman's house, which he prepared for Mordecai, the one who interceded for the king's life." Then the king ordered: “Hang Haman from this gallows!”
- 10. And so Haman was hanged on the gallows that he himself had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's anger was calmed.
