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6
|Ester 7:6|
Esther said, “The adversary and enemy is this vile Haman.” Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
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7
|Ester 7:7|
The king got up in a rage, left his wine and went out into the palace garden. But Haman, realising that the king had already decided his fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.
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8
|Ester 7:8|
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, “Will he even molest the queen while she is with me in the house?” As soon as the word left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
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9
|Ester 7:9|
Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “A gallows seventy-five feet [Hebrew fifty cubits (about 23 metres)] high stands by Haman’s house. He had it made for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”
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10
|Ester 7:10|
So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s fury subsided.
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1
|Ester 8:1|
That same day King Xerxes gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came into the presence of the king, for Esther had told how he was related to her.
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2
|Ester 8:2|
The king took off his signet ring, which he had reclaimed from Haman, and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed him over Haman’s estate.
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3
|Ester 8:3|
Esther again pleaded with the king, falling at his feet and weeping. She begged him to put an end to the evil plan of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.
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4
|Ester 8:4|
Then the king extended the gold sceptre to Esther and she arose and stood before him.
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5
|Ester 8:5|
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if he regards me with favour and thinks it the right thing to do, and if he is pleased with me, let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
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