Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, (A)I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows,[a] because he intended to lay hands on the Jews.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 8:7 Or wooden beam (see note on 2:23)

King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther, and they have impaled(A) him on the pole he set up.

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