⁶ So let seven of Saul’s sons be handed over to us, and we will execute them before the Lord at Gibeon, on the mountain of the Lord.^[a]”

“All right,” the king said, “I will do it.”

²⁴ Then Samuel said to all the people, “This is the man the Lord has chosen as your king. No one in all Israel is like him!”

And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

⁴ When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and told the people about their plight, everyone broke into tears.

²⁶ When Saul returned to his home at Gibeah, a group of men whose hearts God had touched went with him.

⁴ The Lord issued the following command to Moses: “Seize all the ringleaders and execute them before the Lord in broad daylight, so his fierce anger will turn away from the people of Israel.”

⁵ So Moses ordered Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death the men under your authority who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”

²¹ Then the people begged for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, who reigned for forty years.

⁵ Then Judas threw the silver coins down in the Temple and went out and hanged himself.

¹³ Esther responded, “If it please the king, give the Jews in Susa permission to do again tomorrow as they have done today, and let the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be impaled on a pole.”

¹⁴ So the king agreed, and the decree was announced in Susa. And they impaled the bodies of Haman’s ten sons.

¹⁰ the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not take any plunder.