Esther 5:6-13
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Chapter 5
6And as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king said to Esther, "What is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled." 7Then Esther answered, "My wish and my request is: 8If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my wish and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast that I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said."
9And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king 's gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
10Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and his wife Zeresh.
11And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.
12Then Haman said, "Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.
13Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king 's gate."
