3 Queen Esther answered, "If the king looks on me favorably, and if it please Your Majesty to grant me my life, that is my request; and the lives of my people, that is what I ask. 4 For my people and I have been sold7:4. "Sold": or, "handed over." to be destroyed, killed, and annihilated. If we had only been sold as slaves, I would have kept quiet, because our suffering would not have justified disturbing the king."7:4. Or "although our suffering could not have compensated for what the king lost."
9 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: "Haman set up a pole beside his house for Mordecai, the one whose report saved the king’s life. The pole is fifty cubits high."
"Impale him on it!" the king ordered.
10 So they impaled Haman on the pole that he had set up for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king died down.