WEBVTT 00:00.460 --> 00:04.880 Chapter Seven So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. 00:05.720 --> 00:09.120 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, 00:09.620 --> 00:11.400 What is thy petition, Queen Esther? 00:11.640 --> 00:13.240 And it shall be granted thee. 00:13.520 --> 00:14.920 And what is thy request? 00:15.040 --> 00:18.320 And it shall be performed even to the half of the kingdom. 00:18.560 --> 00:22.460 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, 00:22.540 --> 00:27.080 O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, 00:27.700 --> 00:29.000 and my people at my request. 00:29.660 --> 00:35.580 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to 00:35.580 --> 00:36.000 perish. 00:37.160 --> 00:41.640 But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, 00:42.300 --> 00:44.720 although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. 00:45.400 --> 00:49.840 Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he and where 00:49.840 --> 00:52.500 is he that durst presume in his heart to do so? 00:52.660 --> 00:56.140 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. 00:56.140 --> 00:58.960 Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. 00:59.780 --> 01:03.660 And the king, arising from the banquet of wine, in his wrath went into the palace 01:03.660 --> 01:04.040 garden. 01:04.840 --> 01:09.480 And Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen, for he saw that 01:09.480 --> 01:11.620 there was evil determined against him by the king. 01:12.500 --> 01:16.160 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of 01:16.160 --> 01:16.420 wine. 01:17.280 --> 01:20.140 And Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. 01:20.680 --> 01:24.200 Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? 01:24.200 --> 01:27.780 As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. 01:28.380 --> 01:32.680 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also the 01:32.680 --> 01:37.980 gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for 01:37.980 --> 01:40.560 the king, standeth in the house of Haman. 01:40.940 --> 01:43.100 Then the king said, Hang him thereon. 01:43.300 --> 01:46.520 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. 01:47.040 --> 01:48.820 Then was the king's wrath pacified.