⁴ So the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered ^(A)the outer court of the king’s palace ^(B)to suggest that the king hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

¹⁴ Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a ^(A)gallows^[a] be made, ^[b]fifty cubits high, and in the morning ^(B)suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go merrily with the king to the banquet.”

And the thing pleased Haman; so he had ^(C)the gallows made.

¹¹ “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who goes into ^(A)the inner court to the king, who has not been called, ^(B)he has but one law: put all to death, except the one ^(C)to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been ^(D)called to go in to the king these thirty days.”

Esther’s Banquet

5 Now it happened ^(A)on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in ^(B)the inner court of the king’s palace, across from the king’s house, while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, facing the entrance of the ^[a]house.

^10 (A)Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your ^(B)might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.