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It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to half of the kingdom it shall be done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/7-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>Then Queen Esther replied, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me as my petition, and my people as my request; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/7-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the trouble would not be commensurate with the annoyance to the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/7-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, Who is he, and where is he, who would presume to do thus? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/7-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>Esther said, A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman! Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Haman Is Hanged</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/7-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>The king arose in his anger from drinking wine <i>and went</i> into the palace garden; but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm had been determined against him by the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/7-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Now when the king returned from the palace garden into the place where they were drinking wine, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, Will he even assault the queen with me in the house? As the word went out of the kings mouth, they covered Hamans face. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/7-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who <i>were</i> before the king said, Behold indeed, the gallows standing at Hamans house fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai who spoke good on behalf of the king! And the king said, Hang him on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/7-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the kings anger subsided.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 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