The king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so he set the royal crown upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

let a royal robe be brought which the king has worn, and a horse on which the king has ridden, which has a royal crest placed on its head.

Afterward Mordecai went back to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.

but when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letter that this wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.