Esther 7

At the second banquet, King Xerxes again asks Esther to state her petition. Esther finally reveals her plea: "My life and my people have been sold for destruction, slaughter, and annihilation." The King asks, "Who would dare do such a thing?" Esther points to her enemy and declares, "The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman!" The King, furious, leaves the room. When he returns, Haman is pleading desperately by Esther’s couch. The King orders Haman to be immediately hanged on the seventy-five-foot gallows Haman had built for Mordecai.