4For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
5Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”
6Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man — Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.
— Esther 7:4-6