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1 So the king came with Haman to drink with Esther the queen.
2 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."
3 Then 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.
4 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."
5 Then 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?"
6 Esther answered, "A man, an adversary, and an enemy is this evil Haman!"Then Haman was terrified from before the face of the king and the queen.
7 Then 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.
8 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.
9 Then Harbona, one from the eunuchs before the face of the king, said, "Also, behold, the tree that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at the house of Haman fifty cubits high." And the king said, "Hang him on it."
10 So they hanged Haman on the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the rage of the king subsided.
The Book of Esther