The Book of Esther says the king hanged Haman on his own gallows and gave his house to Queen Esther the same day

The Book of Esther says Haman, chief minister of King Ahasuerus, offered "ten thousand talents of silver" for a decree to destroy the Jews of the empire. Queen Esther, who had kept her Jewish birth secret, exposed him at a banquet. Haman was put to death on the gallows 50 cubits high that he had built for Esther's cousin Mordecai; the 2023 Jewish Publication Society translation says he was impaled on the stake. "That very day," the text says, the king gave Haman's property to Queen Esther. The king took back his signet ring from Haman and gave it to Mordecai, and Esther put Mordecai in charge of Haman's property. In the fighting that followed, Haman's ten sons were killed, and Esther asked that they be hanged. The text repeats that on the spoil "laid they not their hand." The Talmud rules that the names of the ten sons be read in one breath. It also rules that the list be written "a half brick arranged upon a half brick," so "that they should never rise from their downfall." Most scholars read the book as a historical novella set at the Persian court and date it to about the 4th century BC. No source outside the Bible confirms Haman or Esther. The book is read aloud every year at Purim, with the sons' names in their own column.