Book 34 : KETUVIM - MEGILOT - ESTHER - Chapter 007
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So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the
queen
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And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at
the banquet of wine: 'Whatever thy petition, queen Esther, it shall be granted
thee; and whatever thy request, even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be
performed.
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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
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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 peace, for the adversary is not worthy that the king be endamaged.
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Then spoke the king Ahasuerus and said unto Esther the
queen: 'Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
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And Esther said: 'An adversary and an enemy, even this
wicked Haman.' Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen
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And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine
and went into the palace garden; but Haman remained to make request for his life
to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by
the king
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Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the
place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther
was. Then said the king: 'Will he even force the queen before me in the house?'
As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face
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Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were
before the king: 'Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath
made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman.'
And the king said: 'Hang him thereon.
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So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared
for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath assuaged
Book 34 : KETUVIM - MEGILOT - ESTHER - Chapter 007
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