3  And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his ^adevice that he had devised against the Jews.

  24  Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had ^adevised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

  4  For we are ^asold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.