April 19, 2020
An Executed Scoundrel
Lesson Scripture
Esther 7: 1-10
1 So the king and Haman came to
banquet with Esther the queen.
2 And the king said again unto
Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen
Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be
performed, even to the half of the kingdom.
3 Then Esther the queen answered
and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the
king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
4 For we are sold, I and my
people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold
for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not
countervail the king's damage.
5 Then the king Ahasuerus
answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst
presume in his heart to do so?
6 And Esther said, The adversary
and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the
queen.
7 And the king arising from the
banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to
make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil
determined against him by the king.
8 Then the king returned out of
the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen
upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen
also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they
covered Haman's face.
9 And Harbonah, one of the
chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high,
which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth
in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
10 So they hanged Haman on the
gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
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