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Then King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, ‘Who is this man? Who would even think of anything like that? Where is he?’

Esther replied, ‘The enemy of our people is this wicked man Haman!’

Then Haman became very afraid, as he sat there with the king and the queen.[a]

The king was very angry and he stood up. He left his wine and he went into the palace garden. Haman realized that the king wanted to destroy him. So he stayed with Queen Esther and he asked her to save his life.

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  1. 7:6 Haman now realized that Queen Esther was a Jew. He knew that the king would be very angry because of the law that Haman had written.