Haman’s Conspiracy Against the Jews

3 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the ^(A)Agagite, and ^(B)advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

¹¹ Then Haman told them of his great riches, ^(A)the multitude of his children, everything in which the king had promoted him, and how he had ^(B)advanced him above the officials and servants of the king.

¹⁰ So the king ^(A)took ^(B)his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the ^(C)enemy of the Jews.

² and over these, three governors, of whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them, so that the king would suffer no loss.

³³ But Samuel said, ^(A)“As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

^40 (A)You shall be ^[a]over my house, and all my people shall be ruled according to your word; only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”

³ Now Esther spoke again to the king, fell down at his feet, and implored him with tears to counteract the evil of Haman the Agagite, and the scheme which he had devised against the Jews.