When the king saw Queen Esther standing outside, she won his favor, and he held out to her the gold scepter. She then came up and touched the tip of it.

King Xerxes then said to Queen Esther and Mordecai, the Jew, "Look, I have hanged Haman for his plot against the Jews, and I have given Esther his property.

He will break the power of the wicked, but the power of the righteous will be increased.

The LORD controls the mind of a king as easily as he directs the course of a stream.