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Haman is Hanged

The king rose in his anger from the banquet[a] and went to the palace garden, and Haman stood to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he realized that the king was determined to make an end to his life.[b] And the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall,[c] where Haman was lying prostrate on the couch that Esther was on, and the king said, “Will he also molest the queen with me in the house?” As the words[d] went from the king’s mouth they covered Haman’s face. And Habrona, one of the eunuchs in the presence of the king, said, “Look, the same gallows that Haman had prepared for Mordecai who spoke good for the sake of the king stands at Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 7:7 Literally “from the banquet of wine”
  2. Esther 7:7 Literally “that evil had been determined for him from the king”
  3. Esther 7:8 Literally “house of the meal of wine”
  4. Esther 7:8 Hebrew “word”