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It shall be given you. And what is <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>your request? Even to half of the kingdom it shall be done.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then Queen Esther answered and said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it <i>seems</i> good to the king, let my life be given to me as <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>my petition, and my people as <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>my request; <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be caused to perish. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>adversity would not be worth the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>annoyance to the king.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then King Ahasuerus said—he said to Esther the Queen, “Who is this one, and where is this one, who fills his heart to do thus?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy is this evil Haman!” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen. <p class="hdg">Haman Is Hanged</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the king arose in his wrath from <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>drinking wine <i>and went</i> into the garden of <i>his</i> palace; but Haman stayed to seek for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that calamity had been determined against him by the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now the king returned from the garden of <i>his</i> palace into the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>place where they were drinking wine. And Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. So the king said, “Will he even assault the queen with me in the house?” <i>As</i> the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who <i>were</i> before the king, said, “Behold indeed, the gallows—which Haman made for Mordecai who spoke good on behalf of the king—are standing at Haman’s house fifty cubits high!” And the king said, “Hang him on it.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So they hanged Haman on the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>gallows which he had set up for Mordecai, and the king’s wrath subsided.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>at the banquet of wine</i><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i>that which you ask for</i><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i>that which you seek</i>, cf. Esth 7:7<br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>that which I ask for</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>that which I seek</i>, cf. Esth 7:7<br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i>enemy could not compensate for the loss</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i>damage</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>the banquet of wine</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Lit <i>house of the banquet of wine</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>tree</i>, cf. Deut 21:22-23<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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