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Esther 7:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall,  Haman was falling on the couch  where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, ‘Would he actually violate the queen while I am in the house? ’ As soon as the statement left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

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White and blue linen hangings were fastened with fine white and purple linen cords to silver rods on marble  columns. Gold and silver couches  were arranged on a mosaic pavement of red feldspar,  marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones.


Then Mordecai returned to the King’s Gate,  but Haman hurried off for home, mournful and with his head covered.


Look, you strong man! The Lord is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,


The earth  is handed over to the wicked; he blindfolds  its judges. If it isn’t he, then who is it?


Kings will be your guardians and their queens  your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the ground and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the  Lord; those who put their hope in me will not be put to shame.


Then some began to spit on him, to blindfold him, and to beat him, saying, ‘Prophesy! ’  The temple servants  also took him and slapped him.


At the end of this time, the king held a week-long banquet  in the garden courtyard  of the royal palace  for all the people, from the greatest to the least,  who were present in the fortress of Susa.


They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.  Then the king’s anger subsided.


The Lord says: As the shepherd snatches two legs or a piece of an ear from the lion’s mouth, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be rescued with only the corner of a bed or the  cushion  of a couch.  ,





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