Haman adalah marah karena beberapa orang Yahudi tidak akan sujud kepadanya. Ia datang dengan sebuah plot untuk membunuh mereka dan yakin raja untuk pergi bersama dengan itu.
9 If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries.”10 So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.