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Esther chapter 7

So the king and Haman came to drink wine with Queen Esther.On this second day of the banquet, while they were drinking wine, the king again asked Esther, “What is your request, Queen Esther? It will be granted. What do you want? Even up to half the kingdom — it’s yours.”Queen Esther answered, “If I’ve found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases the king — . That’s my request. And let my people be spared. That’s what I want.Because my people and I have been — to be destroyed, killed, and wiped out. If we had merely been sold as slaves — men and women alike — I would have kept quiet, because that kind of trouble .”King Ahasuerus demanded, “Who is he? Where is the man who dared to do this?”Esther said, “ — is this evil man Haman.” Haman was in the presence of the king and queen.The king got up in a rage from the wine banquet and went out to the . Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, because he could see that the king had decided his fate.When the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman had where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Is he actually going to assault the queen right here in the palace, with me present?” The moment those words left the king’s mouth, .Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “Look — there’s also the stake that Haman set up for Mordecai, who spoke up to save the king’s life. It’s standing at Haman’s house — seventy-five feet tall.” The king said, “.”So they impaled Haman on the stake he had set up for Mordecai. And .