1 ¶ So the king and Haman came to dine with Esther the queen.

2 And again on the second day the king asked Esther while wine was being served, What is your request, queen Esther? it will be granted: and what do you ask for? even if it is half of the kingdom, it will be done.

3 Then queen Esther said, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, what I ask for is my life, and what I request is my people:

4 For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and extermination. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept silent, because such a distress would not have been enough to trouble the king about.

5 Then king Ahasuerus asked Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, who dares presume in his heart to do that?

6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was terrified as he faced the king and the queen.

7 ¶ Angrily the king got up from drinking wine and went into the palace garden: but Haman stayed to plead with queen Esther for his life; for he saw that the king had determined to ruin him.

8 When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the drinking of wine; Haman was lying on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, Will he also force the queen in front of me in the palace? Then the king gave sentence, and they covered Haman’s face.

9 Then Harbonah, one of the chamberlains serving the king, said, You know, a gallows fifty cubits high, that Haman had built for Mordecai, whose warning saved the king, is standing at the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him on it.

10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.