Esther 7 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹ So the king and Haman came to banquet with Ester the queen.

² The king said again to Ester on the second day at the banquet of wine, *What is your petition, queen Ester? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.*

³ Then Ester the queen answered, *If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

⁴ For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my shalom, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's loss.*

⁵ Then King Achashverosh said to Ester the queen, *Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?*

⁶ Ester said, *An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!* Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

⁷ The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Ester the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

⁸ Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Ester was. Then the king said, *Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?* As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

⁹ Then Charvonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, *Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordekhai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman's house.* The king said, *Hang him on it!*

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