Read the Bible

Esther's Petition to the King

¹ Then the king and Haman came to drink wine with Esther the queen.² And the king said to Esther on the second day also ^(F1)as they drank their wine at the feast, "^(C1)What is ^(F2)your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be given you. And what is ^(F3)your request? ^(C2)Even to half of the kingdom it shall be done."³ Then Queen Esther answered and said, "^(C1)If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it seems good to the king, let my life be given to me as ^(F1)my petition, and my people as ^(F2)my request;⁴ for ^(C1)we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, ^(C2)to be killed, and to be caused to perish. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the ^(F1)adversity would not be worth the ^(F2)annoyance to the king."⁵ Then King Ahasuerus said—he said to Esther the Queen, "Who is this one, and where is this one, who fills his heart to do thus?"⁶ So Esther said, "^(C1)An adversary and an enemy is this evil Haman!" Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.

Haman Is Hanged