Esther answered, “The adversary and enemy is this evil Haman.”

Haman stood terrified before the king and queen.

Then Esther addressed the king again. She fell at his feet, wept, and begged him to revoke the evil of Haman the Agagite, and his plot he had devised against the Jews.

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”

But when the matter was brought before the king, he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.