Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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1 And so the king and Haman
went to eat with Esther
2 for a
second time. Over the wine the king
asked her again, “Now, Queen Esther,
what do you want? Tell me and
you shall have it. I'll even give you
half the empire.”
3 Queen Esther answered, “If it
please Your Majesty to grant my
humble request, my wish is that I
may live and that my people may
live.
4 My people and I have been
sold for slaughter. If it were nothing
more serious than being sold into
slavery, I would have kept quiet and
not bothered you about it; note but we
are about to be destroyed—exterminated!”
5 Then King Xerxes asked Queen
Esther, “Who dares to do such a
thing? Where is this man?”
6 Esther answered, “Our enemy,
our persecutor, is this evil man Haman!”
6 Haman faced the king and queen
with terror.
7 The king got up in a
fury, left the room, and went outside
to the palace gardens. Haman could
see that the king was determined to
punish him for this, so he stayed behind
to beg Queen Esther for his life.
8 He had just thrown himself down
on Esther's couch to beg for mercy,
when the king came back into the
room from the gardens. Seeing this,
the king cried out, “Is this man
going to rape the queen right here in
front of me, in my own palace?”
8 The king had no sooner said this
than the eunuchs covered Haman's
head.
9 Then one of them, who was
named Harbonah, said, “Haman
even went so far as to build a gallows
at his house so that he could
hang Mordecai, who saved Your Majesty's
life. And it's seventy-five feet
tall!”
9 “Hang Haman on it!” the king
commanded.
10 So Haman was hanged on the
gallows that he had built for Mordecai.
Then the king's anger cooled
down.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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