Again and for the third time, the king asked Esther, "What is thy petition, Queen Esther?"
Now, at last she answers, and it is to make plea for her life and for her people who were all marked for death. Esther who was given wisdom from God, said just what was needed to reach the king's heart. Who, he asked, could he be that had planned anything so wicked against the one he loved above all in the kingdom, and against her people? It was none other than Haman, "this wicked Haman," Esther told him.
Haman was now terrified, and the king was angered beyond words as be went into the palace gardens.
Realizing that the sentence of death was his, Haman stood up and asked Esther for his life, and in agony he fell on the couch on which she was. There the king found him as he returned from the garden, and the result was that at the suggestion of one of the chamberlains, Haman was hanged on the very gallows lie had prepared for Mordecai. Thus did this enemy of the Jews come to unexpected hut not undeserved end.