Thomson(i)
1 And when the king came with Haman to banquet with the queen,
2 the king said to Esther the second day at the banquet, What is it queen Esther? What is thy request, and what thy petition? to the half of my kingdom it shall be granted thee.
3 Thereupon she in reply said, If I have found favour in the sight of the king, let my life be granted at my request, and my people at my petition;
4 for I and my people are sold to be destroyed. Had it been to be plundered and reduced to slavery; that we and our children should be bondmen and bondwomen, I would have dissembled hearing it, for the accuser is not worthy of the king's court.
5 And the king said, Who is he who hath dared to do such a thing?
6 To which Esther replied, The adversary is Haman, this bad man. At this Haman was struck with consternation for fear of the king and the queen.
7 Then the king rising from the banquet went into the garden, and Haman supplicated the queen, for he saw himself in a desperate situation.
8 And on the king's returning out of the garden as Haman had prostrated himself on the sopha to supplicate the queen, the king said, What! would he offer violence to my wife in my house? Upon hearing this Haman was confounded.
9 Then Bugathan one of the chamberlains said to the king, Behold Hainan hath prepared a gallows for Mordecai who spoke for the king. There is at Haman's house a gallows actually erected fifty cubits high. Thereupon the king said, Let him be hanged thereon.
10 So Haman was hanged on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king's anger was appeased.