7:1 So the king and Aman went in to drink
with the queen.
7:2 And the king said to Esther at the banquet on the second day, What is
it, queen Esther? and what [is] thy request, and what [is] thy petition? and
it shall be [done] for thee, to the half of my kingdom.
7:3 And she answered and said, If I have found favour in the sight of the
king, let [my] life be granted to my petition, and my people to my request.
7:4 For both I and my people are sold for destruction, and pillage, and
slavery; [both] we and our children for bondmen and bondwomen: and I
consented not to it, for the slanderer [is] not worthy of the king's palace.
7:5 And the king said, Who [is] this that has dared to do this thing?
7:6 And Esther said, the adversary [is] Aman, this wicked man. Then Aman was
troubled before the king and the queen.
7:7 And the king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden: and Aman
began to intreat the queen; for he saw that he was in an evil case.
7:8 And the king returned from the garden; and Aman had fallen upon the bed,
intreating the queen. And the king said, Wilt thou even force [my] wife in
my house? And when Aman heard it, he changed countenance.
7:9 And Bugathan, one of the chamberlains, said to the king, Behold, Aman
has also prepared a gallows for Mardochaeus, who spoke concerning the king,
and a gallows of fifty cubits high has been set up in the premises of Aman.
And the king said, Let him be hanged thereon.
7:10 So Aman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for
Mardochaeus: and then the king's wrath was appeased. |
7:1 So the king and Haman came to banquet
with Esther the queen.
7:2 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.
7:3 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:
7:4 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.
7:5 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?
7:6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then
Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
7:7 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.
7:8 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 king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
7:9 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold
also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who
spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king
said, Hang him thereon.
7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.
Then was the king's wrath pacified. |