Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall,[a] Haman was falling on the couch(A) where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually violate the queen while I am in the house?” As soon as the statement left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.(B)

Harbona, one of the king’s eunuchs,(C) said, “There is a gallows seventy-five feet[b] tall at Haman’s house that he made for Mordecai,(D) who gave the report that saved[c] the king.”(E)

The king said, “Hang him on it.”

10 They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.(F) Then the king’s anger subsided.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:8 Or the house of wine
  2. 7:9 Lit 50 cubits
  3. 7:9 Lit who spoke good for

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