⁷ If he says, ‘Very well,’ then your servant is safe. But if he loses his temper,^(A) you can be sure that he is determined^(B) to harm me.

¹⁷ Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked^(A) man that no one can talk to him.”

⁷ The king got up in a rage,^(A) left his wine and went out into the palace garden.^(B) But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate,^(C) stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.

⁴ This plan seemed good to Absalom and to all the elders of Israel.

⁹ “Never!” Jonathan said. “If I had the least inkling that my father was determined to harm you, wouldn’t I tell you?”

²³ The idea seemed good to me; so I selected^(A) twelve of you, one man from each tribe.