Esther 7:1-6

International Standard Version

Haman is Executed

7 The king and Haman went in to have a drink with Queen Esther. ² On the second day the king again told Esther as they drank wine, “What’s your petition, Queen Esther? It will be given to you. What’s your request? Up to half of the kingdom, and it will be done.”

³ Queen Esther answered: “If I’ve found favor with you, your majesty, and if it seems good to the king, let my life be given to me as my petition and my people as my request. ⁴ Indeed, I and my people have been sold to be annihilated, killed, and destroyed. If we had just been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because the trouble wouldn’t have been sufficient to bother the king.”^[a]

⁵ Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the person who would dare^[b] do this?”

⁶ Esther replied, “An adversary and an enemy—it’s this wicked Haman!” So Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.