Esther Chapter 7    

¹So the king and Haman went in to the banquet with Esther the queen.
  ²And on the second day at the banquet of wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It will be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it will be done.”
 

³Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given to me—this is my petition. And my people—this is my request.
  ⁴For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed and to perish. But if we had merely been sold for male and female slaves, I would have kept silent, for then our distress would not be worth troubling the king.”
 

⁵Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared in his heart to do this?”
 

⁶Esther said, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
  ⁷The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to make a request for his life to Esther the queen, for he saw that harm had been determined against him by the king.
  ⁸Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine, and Haman had just fallen upon the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even violate the queen in front of me in my own house?” As the words went out of the king’s mouth, the guards covered Haman’s face.
 

⁹Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who attended the king, said, “Behold, a 75-foot high stake that Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good on behalf of the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Impale him on it!”
 

¹⁰So they impaled Haman on the stake that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was abated.