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Ginbitay si Haman

Nagpanihapon si Haring Ahasuerus kag si Haman upod kay Rayna Ester. Kag samtang nagaininom sila sa sinang ikaduha nga panihapon, nagpamangkot liwat ang hari kay Rayna Ester, “Ano gid bala ang imo kinahanglan? Isiling lang kay ihatag ko sa imo bisan ang katunga pa sang akon ginharian.” Nagsabat si Rayna Ester, “Kon matuod nga maayo ka sa akon kag nalipay ka sa akon, Mahal nga Hari, luwasa ako kag ang akon mga kasimanwa. Amo ini ang akon ginapangayo sa imo. Kay may premyo nga ginapromisa sa kay bisan sin-o nga magpatay sa amon. Kon ginbaligya lang kami bilang mga ulipon, indi ko na ikaw pagtublagon pa tungod kay indi gid man ina importante para sa imo agod disturbuhon ka pa.”

Nagsabat si Haring Ahasuerus sa iya, “Sin-o ang nangahas sa paghimo sina kag diin siya subong?” Nagsabat si Ester, “Ang kaaway wala sing iban kundi ining malaot nga si Haman.”

Puwerte ang kulba ni Haman sa atubangan sang hari kag sang rayna. Nagtindog dayon ang hari sa puwerte nga kaakig. Ginbayaan niya ang iya ilimnon kag nagkadto sa hardin sang palasyo. Pero nagpabilin si Haman kag nagpakitluoy kay Rayna Ester tungod kay nahibaluan niya nga desidido ang hari nga silutan siya.

Nagahapa si Haman sa higdaan nga ginahilayan ni Ester samtang nagapakitluoy. Sang pagkakita sa iya sang hari nga nagbalik halin sa hardin, nagsiling ang hari, “Aba, buot mo pa nga luguson ang rayna diri sa palasyo bisan ara ako.”

Pagkatapos lang gid hambal sang hari, gintabunan sang mga suluguon ang ulo[a] ni Haman. Dayon nagsiling si Harbona, nga isa sa mga personal nga alagad sang hari, “Nagpahimo si Haman sang bilitayan nga mga 75 ka tapak ang kataason didto sa tupad sang iya balay. Ginpahimo niya ato para kay Mordecai, ang tawo nga nagsugid para maluwas ang imo kabuhi, Mahal nga Hari.”

Dayon nagmando ang hari, “Bitaya ninyo didto si Haman!” 10 Gani ginbitay nila si Haman sa bilitayan nga ginpahimo niya para kuntani kay Mordecai. Dayon nadula ang kaakig sang hari.

Footnotes

  1. 7:8 gintabunan… ang ulo: Siguro tanda ini nga pagapatyon siya.

Haman Impaled

So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther’s banquet,(A) and as they were drinking wine(B) on the second day, the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom,(C) it will be granted.(D)

Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor(E) with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me my life—this is my petition. And spare my people—this is my request. For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated.(F) If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king.[a]

King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is he? Where is he—the man who has dared to do such a thing?”

Esther said, “An adversary and enemy! This vile Haman!”

Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen. The king got up in a rage,(G) left his wine and went out into the palace garden.(H) But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate,(I) stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.

Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch(J) where Esther was reclining.(K)

The king exclaimed, “Will he even molest the queen while she is with me in the house?”(L)

As soon as the word left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.(M) Then Harbona,(N) one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “A pole reaching to a height of fifty cubits[b](O) stands by Haman’s house. He had it set up for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.”

The king said, “Impale him on it!”(P) 10 So they impaled(Q) Haman(R) on the pole(S) he had set up for Mordecai.(T) Then the king’s fury subsided.(U)

Footnotes

  1. Esther 7:4 Or quiet, but the compensation our adversary offers cannot be compared with the loss the king would suffer
  2. Esther 7:9 That is, about 75 feet or about 23 meters

So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.

And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.

Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?

And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.

10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.