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 into slavery; our possessions
have been plundered, and now we
are to be destroyed—all of us, including
our children, will be
slaves—and so far I have kept quiet.
It isn't right that our enemy should
be a member of the royal court.”
5 Then King Xerxes asked Esther,
“Who dares to do such a thing?”
6 Esther answered, “Our enemy is
this evil man Haman!”
6 In terror Haman faced the king
and queen.
7 The king got up from
the table and went outside to the
palace gardens. Haman could see
that he was in a dangerous situation,
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, “Are you going to rape my
wife here in my own palace?”
8 When Haman heard this, he
turned away in despair.
9 Then one
of the eunuchs, whose name was
Bougathan, said, “Haman has even
gone so far as to build a gallows at
his house so that he can hang Mordecai,
who warned Your Majesty
about the plot. And it's seventy-five
feet high!”
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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