3 The king asked her, "What is it, Queen Esther? What do you want? I’ll give it to you, as much as half my empire!"
4 Esther replied, "If it please Your Majesty, may the king and Haman come today to a dinner I have prepared for him."
8 If the king looks on me favorably, and if it please Your Majesty to grant my request and do as I ask, may the king and Haman come to a dinner I will prepare for them. Tomorrow I will answer Your Majesty’s question."
14 His wife Zeresh and his friends told him, "Arrange for a pole to be set up, fifty cubits high. Then, in the morning, go and ask the king to have Mordecai impaled on it. Afterwards, you’ll be happy as you go with the king to the dinner." Haman thought this was good advice, so he had the pole set up.