004:014 For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" 004:015 Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai, 004:016 "Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish." 004:017 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him. 005:001 Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, next to the king's house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. 005:002 When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter. 005:003 Then the king asked her, "What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom." 005:004 Esther said, "If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him." 005:005 Then the king said, "Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said." So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared. 005:006 The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." 005:007 Then Esther answered and said, "My petition and my request is this. 005:008 If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said." 005:009 Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he didn't stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. 005:010 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife. 005:011 Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. 005:012 Haman also said, "Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself;