Esther Pleads for Her People 1 ULT And the king came with Haman to drink with Esther the queen. BSB BSB: So the king and Haman went to dine with Esther the queen,
2 ULT And the king said to Esther again on the second day during the banquet of wine,“What is your petition, Esther the queen? And let it be given to you. And what is your request? As much as half of the kingdom, and let it be done.” BSB BSB: and as they drank their wine on that second day, the king asked once more, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”
3 ULT And Esther the queen answered and said,“If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it is good to the king, let my life be given to me at my petition and my people at my request. BSB BSB: Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
4 ULT For we have been sold, I and my people, for annihilation, for slaughter, and for destruction. Now if we had been sold as slaves and female servants, I would have kept silent, because the distress would not have been equal to a burden of the king.” BSB BSB: For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
5 ULT And the king Ahasuerus spoke and said to Esther the queen,“Who is he, this man? Where is this man, he whose heart is full to do thus?” BSB BSB: Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”
6 ULT Esther answered,“A man, an adversary, and an enemy— this evil Haman!” Then Haman was terrified from before the face of the king and the queen. BSB BSB: Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.
The Hanging of Haman 7 ULT And the king rose up in his rage from the banquet of wine to the garden of the palace. But Haman remained in order to seek for his life from Esther the queen, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king. BSB BSB: In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king was planning a terrible fate for him.
8 ULT Now when the king returned from the garden of the palace to the house of the banquet of wine, Haman was fallen on the couch on which Esther was. And the king said,“Is it also to subdue the queen with me in the house?” The word was going out from the mouth of the king when they covered the face of Haman. BSB BSB: 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, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
9 ULT And Harbona, one from the eunuchs before the face of the king, said,“Also, behold, the pole that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at the house of Haman 50 cubits high.” And the king said,“Hang him on it.” BSB BSB: Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.
10 ULT And they hanged Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the rage of the king subsided. BSB BSB: So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
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