1So the king and Haman came to eat with Queen Esther.
2On the second day, during the wine banquet, the king again said to Esther, "What is your request, Queen Esther? It will be granted to you. What do you wish? It will be done, even up to half of the kingdom."
3Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, allow me to live, as is my request, and spare my people, as is my wish.
4For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed, and wiped out. If we had only been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, even though the enemy could not have made up for the king's loss."
5Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who dared to think of doing such a thing?"
6Esther said, "The enemy and adversary is this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
7The king, in a rage, got up from the wine banquet and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to beg Queen Esther for his life, because he saw that the king had decided to punish him.
8Then the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall where Esther was. Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was reclining. Then the king said, "Will he even attack the queen in my own house, right in front of me?" As soon as the king said this, they covered Haman's face.
9Then Harbonah, one of the officials who was with the king, said, "Look, Haman built a gallows seventy-five feet high for Mordecai, who spoke up for the king, and it's standing at Haman's house." The king said, "Hang him on it!"
10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's anger calmed down.