Haman said moreover, "Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to- morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.
"Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."
Then said his wife and all his friends, "Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to-morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon; then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet." And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
VI
On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
And it was found written therein that Mordecai had told of the two keepers of the door who had sought to lay hand on King Ahasuerus.
And the king said, "What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?"
Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, "There is nothing done for him."
And the king said, "Who is in the court?"
Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.