7:1 So the king and Aman went in to drink with the queen.

7:2 And the king said to Esther at the banquet on the second day, What is it, queen Esther? and what [is] thy request, and what [is] thy petition? and it shall be [done] for thee, to the half of my kingdom.

7:3 And she answered and said, If I have found favour in the sight of the king, let [my] life be granted to my petition, and my people to my request.

7:4 For both I and my people are sold for destruction, and pillage, and slavery; [both] we and our children for bondmen and bondwomen: and I consented not to it, for the slanderer [is] not worthy of the king's palace.

7:5 And the king said, Who [is] this that has dared to do this thing?

7:6 And Esther said, The adversary [is] Aman, this wicked man. Then Aman was troubled before the king and the queen.

7:7 And the king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden: and Aman began to intreat the queen; for he saw that he was in an evil case.

7:8 And the king returned from the garden; and Aman had fallen upon the bed, intreating the queen. And the king said, Wilt thou even force [my] wife in my house? And when Aman heard it, he changed countenance.

7:9 And Bugathan, one of the chamberlains, said to the king, Behold, Aman has also prepared a gallows for Mardochæus, who spoke concerning the king, and a gallows of fifty cubits high has been set up in the premises of Aman. And the king said, Let him be hanged thereon.

7:10 So Aman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mardochæus: and then the king's wrath was appeased.