Esther Chapter 7
So the king and Haman showed up to a feast with Queen Esther. Vibe check.
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. {to banquet: Heb. to drink}
On the second day of the wine bash, the king asked Esther again, "What's your desire, Queen Esther? I'm down, even up to half the kingdom, no cap."
And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What {is} thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what {is} thy request? and it shall be performed, {even} to the half of the kingdom.
Esther came back with, "If I got your blessing, King, just let me and my people live."
Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
"We’re about to get sold out, me and my squad, to be wiped off the map. If it was just about being servants, I'd be cool, but this is straight up savage."
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. {to be destroyed...: Heb. that they should destroy, and kill, and cause to perish}
King Ahasuerus was like, "Who’s the fool thinking they can pull this off?"
Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so? {that...: Heb. whose heart hath filled him}
Esther put it out there, "The enemy is this wicked Haman." Haman was shook in front of the king and queen.
And Esther said, The adversary and enemy {is} this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. {The adversary: Heb. The man adversary} {before: or, at the presence of}
The king bounced out of the wine party, furious, and Haman tried to beg for mercy with Esther, seeing the heat from the king.
And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath {went} into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
When the king came back from the garden to the wine gathering, he caught Haman on the couch where Esther was chilling. The king was like, "Is he trying to push up on the queen too?" As soon as he said that, they threw a cover over Haman’s face.
Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther {was}. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. {before me: Heb. with me}
Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, told the king, "Yo, peep the gallows Haman set up for Mordecai, who’s been solid to you. It’s wild at Haman's place." The king was like, "Hang him there."
And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon. {gallows: Heb. tree}
So they hanged Haman on the gallows he built for Mordecai. The king's rage calmed down.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.