Saul's daughter Michal, however, fell in love with David, and when Saul heard of this, he was pleased.

He said to himself, "I'll give Michal to David; I will use her to trap him, and he will be killed by the Philistines." So for the second time Saul said to David, "You will be my son-in-law."

Saul answered, "May the LORD bless you for being so kind to me!

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.

They know that God's law says that people who live in this way deserve death. Yet, not only do they continue to do these very things, but they even approve of others who do them.

The king and the people were pleased with their plan,

The king and his officials liked this idea, and the king did what Memucan suggested.