13 When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against ^ahim but will surely fall before him.”  ‡

14 While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hastened to bring Haman to ^athe banquet which Esther had prepared. ‡