<p class="bodytext">So Haman took the clothing and the horse, and he clothed Mordecai. He led him about on the horse throughout the plaza of the city, calling before him, &#8220;So shall it be done to the man whom the king wishes to honor!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">When the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet of wine, Haman was throwing himself down<n id="1" /> on the couch where Esther was lying.<n id="2" /> The king exclaimed, &#8220;Will he also attempt to rape the queen while I am still in the building!&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">As these words left the king&#8217;s mouth, they covered Haman&#8217;s face.

<p class="bodytext">Then Esther again spoke with the king, falling at his feet. She wept and begged him for mercy, that he might nullify the evil of Haman the Agagite which he had intended against the Jews.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">King Ahasuerus replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, &#8220;Look, I have already given Haman&#8217;s estate to Esther, and he has been hanged on the gallows because he took hostile action<n id="1" /> against the Jews.

Now you write in the king&#8217;s name whatever in your opinion is appropriate concerning the Jews and seal it with the king&#8217;s signet ring. Any decree that is written in the king&#8217;s name and sealed with the king&#8217;s signet ring cannot be rescinded.p>

Throughout every province and throughout every city where the king&#8217;s edict and his law arrived, the Jews experienced happiness and joy, banquets and holidays. Many of the resident peoples<n id="1" /> pretended<n id="2" /> to be Jews, because the fear of the Jews had overcome them.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Esther replied, &#8220;If the king is so inclined, let the Jews who are in Susa be permitted to act tomorrow also according to today&#8217;s law, and let them hang the ten sons of Haman on the gallows.&#8221;p>

The Jews who were in Susa then assembled on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they killed three hundred men in Susa. But they did not confiscate their property.p>

<p class="bodytext">The rest of the Jews who were throughout the provinces of the king assembled in order to stand up for themselves and to have rest from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand<n id="1" /> of their adversaries, but they did not confiscate their property.

<t /><p class="bodytext">But the Jews who were in Susa assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth days, and rested on the fifteenth, making it a day for banqueting and happiness.

But when the matter came to the king&#8217;s attention, the king<n id="1" /> gave written orders that Haman&#8217;s<n id="2" /> evil intentions that he had devised against the Jews should fall on his own head. He and his sons were hanged on the gallows.

Now all the actions carried out under his authority and his great achievements, along with an exact statement concerning the greatness of Mordecai, whom the king promoted, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?