The king arose in anger(A) and went from where they were drinking wine to the palace garden.[a](B) Haman remained to beg Queen Esther for his life because he realized the king was planning something terrible for him.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:7 Lit the garden of the house, also in v. 8

12 A king’s rage is like the roaring of a lion,(A)
but his favor is like dew on the grass.(B)

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