Now on the third day, Esther put on her queen's robes, and took her place in the inner room of the king's house, facing the king's house: and the king was seated on his high seat in the king's house, facing the doorway of the house.

After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.

even in those days when the king Ahasuerus sat on his seat royal which was in Susa, the chief city,

And when the virgins came together in the second house of the women, Mordecai took his seat in the doorway of the king's house.

Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.

Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment: