1103 - The King Executed Haman
The King Executed Haman The king and Haman went to Queen Esther’s banquet. On this second occasion, while they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, “Now, tell me what you want, Queen Esther. What is your request? I will give it to you, even if it is half the kingdom!” Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor with the king, and if it pleases the king, to grant my request, I ask that my life, and the lives of my people, be spared. For my people, and I, have been sold to those, who would …kill, slaughter, and annihilate us. If we had merely been sold, as slaves, I could remain quiet, for that would be too trivial a matter, to warrant disturbing the king.” “Who would do such a thing?” King Xerxes demanded. “Who would be so presumptuous, as to touch you?” Esther replied, “This wicked Haman is our adversary, and our enemy.” Haman grew pale, with fright, before the king and queen. Then the king jumped to his feet, in a rage, and went out, into the palace garden. Ha