ESTHER Chapter 7 (GNB)
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7:1 And so the
king and Haman went to eat with Esther |
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7:2 for a second
time. Over the wine the king asked her again, "Now, Queen Esther, what
do you want? Tell me and you shall have it. I'll even give you half the
empire." |
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7:3 Queen Esther
answered, "If it please Your Majesty to grant
my humble request, my wish is that I may live and that my people may live. |
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7:4 My people and
I have been sold for slaughter. If it were nothing more serious than being
sold into slavery, I would have kept quiet and not bothered you about it; but
we are about to be destroyed---exterminated!" |
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7:5 Then King
Xerxes asked Queen Esther, "Who dares to do such a thing? Where is this
man?" |
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7:6 Esther
answered, "Our enemy, our persecutor, is this evil man Haman!"
Haman faced the king and queen with terror. |
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7:7 The king got
up in a fury, left the room, and went outside to the palace gardens. Haman
could see that the king was determined to punish him for this, so he stayed
behind to beg Queen Esther for his life. |
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7:8 He had just
thrown himself down on Esther's couch to beg for mercy, when the king came
back into the room from the gardens. Seeing this, the king cried out,
"Is this man going to rape the queen right here in front of me, in my
own palace?" The king had no sooner said this than the eunuchs covered
Haman's head. |
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7:9 Then one of
them, who was named Harbonah, said, "Haman
even went so far as to build a gallows at his house so that he could hang
Mordecai, who saved Your Majesty's life. And it's seventy-five feet
tall!" "Hang Haman on it!" the king commanded. |
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7:10 So Haman was
hanged on the gallows that he had built for Mordecai. Then the king's anger
cooled down. |
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