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Esther 7
At the second banquet the king again offers Esther up to half the kingdom, and she finally names her petition: her own life and the life of her people, who have been "sold" to destruction. Pressed to identify who dared plan this, she points across the table: "this wicked Haman." The scene moves fast from there. Watch how the king's exit to the garden and Haman's desperate plea to Esther collapse into the moment that seals his death.
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So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
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The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”
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Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.
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For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
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Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”
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Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
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The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen, for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
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Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
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Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king, said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”
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So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.
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Então o rei e Hamã foram ao banquete com a rainha Ester.
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O rei disse novamente a Ester no segundo dia, no banquete do vinho: “Qual é a sua petição, rainha Ester? Ela lhe será concedida. Qual é o seu pedido? Mesmo que seja até a metade do reino, ele será atendido.”
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Então a rainha Ester respondeu: “Se achei favor aos seus olhos, ó rei, e se for do agrado do rei, que a minha vida me seja concedida como minha petição, e o meu povo como o meu pedido.
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Pois fomos vendidos, eu e o meu povo, para sermos destruídos, mortos e aniquilados. Mas se tivéssemos sido vendidos como escravos e escravas, eu teria me calado, embora o adversário não pudesse compensar o prejuízo do rei.”
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Então o rei Assuero disse à rainha Ester: “Quem é ele, e onde está aquele que ousou em seu coração fazer tal coisa?”
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Ester disse: “Um adversário e um inimigo, este perverso Hamã!” Então Hamã ficou apavorado diante do rei e da rainha.
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O rei levantou-se em sua ira do banquete do vinho e foi para o jardim do palácio. Hamã levantou-se para implorar por sua vida à rainha Ester, pois viu que o mal estava determinado contra ele pelo rei.
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Então o rei voltou do jardim do palácio para o local do banquete do vinho; e Hamã havia caído sobre o divã onde Ester estava. Então o rei disse: “Ele iria até mesmo violentar a rainha na minha frente, nesta casa?” Assim que a palavra saiu da boca do rei, cobriram o rosto de Hamã.
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Então Harbona, um dos eunucos que estavam com o rei, disse: “Eis que a forca de cinquenta côvados de altura, que Hamã fez para Mardoqueu, que falou para o bem do rei, está erguida na casa de Hamã.” O rei disse: “Enforquem-no nela!”
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Então enforcaram Hamã na forca que ele havia preparado para Mardoqueu. E a ira do rei foi apaziguada.
Harbonah supplies the fatal detail
When the king returns and finds Haman fallen on Esther's couch, he reads it as assault on the queen in his own house. It is the eunuch Harbonah who points to the fifty-cubit gallows Haman built for Mordecai, still standing at Haman's house.
The instrument turns on its maker: Haman is hanged on the very gallows he prepared, and the chapter ends with the king's wrath pacified, resolving the danger Esther exposed but leaving the wider decree against the Jews still in force.
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