After Esther identified Haman as the enemy, a court official mentioned the gallows Haman had prepared for Mordecai (Esther 7:5–6; Esther 7:9). The king ordered Haman to be hanged on that gallows (Esther 7:10).
At the second banquet, the king presses Esther to identify the person behind the threat she has just described. He frames the act as bold and outrageous, asking both who it is and where he is. Esther answers directly: the opponent is Haman, calling him an adversary, an enemy, and wicked. These verses sit at the turning point of the story’s conflict. Esther has arranged two banquets to secure a private, controlled moment with the king and Haman, and she has just raised the issue of her own life and her people’s survival (7:1–4).
Esther 7:5–6 is the moment when the threat becomes personal and public. The king treats Esther’s report as a real, outrageous attempt on the queen (and, by implication from 7:3–4, her people). He demands the culprit’s identity and location. Esther answers plainly and directly, using strong labels (“adversary,” “enemy,” “wicked”) and then naming Haman.
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with Esther 7:5-6, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
5Then spoke the king Ahasuerus and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that dared presume in his heart to do so?
6Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.