Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. VII.
Esther entertayning the king and Aman againe at a feast, is promised to obtaine,
whatsoeuer she wil aske. 3. she demandeth saftie for her self, and al
the people, against Amans crueltie, 6. and Aman is hanged on the gallowes,
which he had prepared for Mardocheus.
1 The king therfore and Aman went in, to drinke with
the queene.
2 And the king said to her also the second
day, after he was warme with wine: What is thy petition
Esther, that it may be geuen thee? and what wilt thou haue
done? although thou shalt aske the half part of my kingdome,
thou shalt obteyne.
3 To whom she answered, note If
I haue found grace in thyne eies รด king, and if it please thee,
-- --
geue me my life for the which I make request, and my people
for the which I besech.
4 For we are deliuered I and my people,
to be destroyed, murdered, and to perish. And would
God we were sold for bondmen and bondwemen: it were a
tolerable euil, and mourning I would hold my peace: but
now it is our enemie, whose crueltie redoundeth vpon the
king.
5 And king Assuerus answering, said: Who is this, and
of what might, that he dare doe these things?
6 And Esther
said: It is this Aman our aduersarie and most wicked enemie.
Which he hearing note forthwith was astonished, not enduring
to beare the countenance of the king and of the queene.
7 But the king being wrath rose vp, and from the place of the
banket went into the garden set with trees. Aman also rose
vp, to intreate Esther the queene for his life, for he vnderstood
that there was euil prepared him of the king.
8 Who when he
was returned out of the garden set with trees, and had entered
into the place of the banket, he found Aman to haue fallen
vpon the bed, wherin Esther lay, and he said: The queene
also he wil force in my presence, in my house. Neither was
the word yet passed from the kings mouth, and immediatly
they couered his face.
9 And Harbona, note one of the eunuches
which stood wayting on the king, sayd: Behold the gibbet,
which he had prepared for Mardocheus, that spake for the
king, standeth in Amans house, hauing in height fiftie cubites.
To whom the king said: Hang him vpon it.
10 Aman therfore
was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardocheus:
and the kings wrath ceased.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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