Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, Who is he, and where is he, that dares presume in his heart to do this? demonstrating the king's immediate anger at the revelation that someone in his kingdom has dared to plot the destruction of his queen and her people without his explicit knowledge or understanding of who is involved. This question reveals the king's shock and his apparent ignorance of the specific identity of the person responsible for the decree, suggesting that his original authorization of Haman's proposal was made without full understanding of the consequences or of the queen's identity as a Jew.

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