Esther 5:12-14

Good News Translation

¹² “What is more,” Haman went on, “Queen Esther gave a banquet for no one but the king and me, and we are invited back tomorrow. ¹³ But none of this means a thing to me as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at the entrance of the palace.”

¹⁴ So his wife and all his friends suggested, “Why don't you have a gallows built, seventy-five feet tall? Tomorrow morning you can ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it, and then you can go to the banquet happy.”

Haman thought this was a good idea, so he had the gallows built.