Esther 9:24-26

Good News Translation

^24 [a]Haman son of Hammedatha—the descendant of Agag and the enemy of the Jewish people—had cast lots (“purim,” they were called) to determine the day for destroying the Jews; he had planned to wipe them out. ²⁵ But Esther went to the king, and the king issued written orders with the result that Haman suffered the fate he had planned for the Jews—he and his sons were hanged from the gallows. ²⁶ That is why the holidays are called Purim. Because of Mordecai's letter and because of all that had happened to them,