1 So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther.
2 On this second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again asked Esther, "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It will be granted to you. And what is your request? Up to half the kingdom, it will be done."
3 Queen Esther answered, "If I have found favor with you, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life; that is my petition. And spare my people; that is my request.
4 For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed, and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have kept quiet, for the distress would not be worth the damage to the king."
5 King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, "Who is he? Where is the man who has dared to do such a thing?"
6 Esther said, "An adversary and enemy, this evil Haman!" Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
7 The king got up in a rage, left his wine, and went out into the palace garden. But Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he saw that the king had already decided his doom.
8 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, "Will he even molest the queen while she is with me in my own house?" As soon as the words left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
9 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, "There is a gallows fifty cubits high standing by Haman's house. He had it set up for Mordecai, who spoke up to save the king." The king said, "Hang him on it!"
10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had set up for Mordecai, and the king's anger died down.