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So Esther came near and touched the top of the scepter. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/5-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>Then the king said to her, What is <i>troubling</i> you, Queen Esther? And what is your request? Even to half of the kingdom it shall be given to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/5-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>Esther said, If it pleases the king, may the king and Haman come this day to the banquet that I have prepared for him.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/5-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the king said, Bring Haman quickly that we may do as Esther desires. So the king and Haman came to the banquet which Esther had prepared. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/5-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>As they drank their wine at the banquet, the king said to Esther, What is your petition, for it shall be granted to 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/5-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>So Esther replied, My petition and my request is: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/5-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>if I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and do what I request, may the king and Haman come to the banquet which I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king says.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Hamans Pride</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/5-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Haman went out that day glad and pleased of heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the kings gate and that he did not stand up or tremble before him, Haman was filled with anger against Mordecai. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/5-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Haman controlled himself, however, went to his house and sent for his friends and his wife Zeresh. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/5-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the number of his sons, and every <i>instance</i> where the king had magnified him and how he had promoted him above the princes and servants of the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/5-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Haman also said, Even Esther the queen let no one but me come with the king to the banquet which she had prepared; and tomorrow also I am invited by her with the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/5-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Yet all of this does not satisfy me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the kings gate. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esther/5-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, Have a gallows fifty cubits high made and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go joyfully with the king to the banquet. 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