Esther:7

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drb @Esther:7:1 @So the king and Aman went in , to drink with the queen . drb @Esther:7:2 @And the king said to her again the second day , after he was warm with wine : What is thy petition , Esther , that it may be granted thee ? and what wilt thou have done : although thou ask the half of my kingdom , thou shalt have it . drb @Esther:7:3 @Then she answered : If I have found Favour in thy sight , O king , and if it please thee , give me my life for which I ask , and my people for which I request . drb @Esther:7:4 @For we are given up , I and my people , to be destroyed , to be slain , and to perish . And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen : the evil might be borne with , and I would have mourned in silence : but now we have an enemy , whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king . drb @Esther:7:5 @And king Assuerus answered and said : Who is this , and of what power , that he should do these things ? drb @Esther:7:6 @And Esther said : It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy . Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished , not being able to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen . drb @Esther:7:7 @But the king being angry rose up , and went from the place of the banquet into the garden set with trees . Aman also rose up to entreat Esther the queen for his life , for he understood that evil was prepared for him by the king . drb @Esther:7:8 @And when the king came back out of the garden set with trees , and entered into the place of the banquet , he found Aman was fallen upon the bed on which Esther lay , and he said : He will force the queen also in my presence , in my own house . The word was not yet gone out of the king 's mouth , and immediately they covered his face . drb @Esther:7:9 @And Harbona , one of the eunuchs that stood waiting on the king , said : Behold the gibbet which he hath prepared for Mardochai , who spoke for the king , standeth in Aman 's house , being fifty cubits high . And the king said to him : Hang him upon it . drb @Esther:7:10 @So Aman was hanged on the gibbet , which he had prepared for Mardochai : and the king 's wrath ceased .

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