Yǐsītièjì 7:3

3 Wáng hòu Yǐsītiĕ huídá shuō , wǒ ruò zaì wáng yǎnqián méng ēn , wáng ruò yǐwéi mĕi , wǒ suǒ yuàn de , shì yuàn wáng jiāng wǒde xìngméng cìgĕi wǒ . wǒ suǒ qiú de , shì qiú wáng jiāng wǒde bĕn zú cìgĕi wǒ .

Yǐsītièjì 7:3 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 7:3

Then Esther the queen answered and said
Not rolling herself at the king's knees, as Severus ^F6 writes; but rather, as the former Targum, lifting up her eyes to heaven, and perhaps putting up a secret ejaculation for direction and success:

if I have found favour in thy sight, O king;
as she certainly had heretofore, and even now:

and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition;
not riches, nor honour, nor any place or post at court, or in any of the king's dominions for any friend of her's, was her petition; but for her own life, that that might not be taken away, which was included in the grant the king had made to Haman, though ignorantly, to slay all the Jews, she being one of them:

and my people at my request;
that is, the lives of her people also, that was her request; her own life and her people's were all she had to ask.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Hist. Sacr. l. 2.

Yǐsītièjì 7:3 In-Context

1 Wáng daì zhe Hāmàn lái fù wáng hòu Yǐsītiĕ de yánxí .

2 Zhè dì èr cì zaì jiǔ xí yán qián , wáng yòu wèn Yǐsītiĕ shuō , wáng hòu Yǐsītiĕ a , nǐ yào shénme , wǒ bì cìgĕi nǐ . nǐ qiú shénme , jiù shì guó de yī bàn yĕ bì wèi nǐ chéngjiù .

3 Wáng hòu Yǐsītiĕ huídá shuō , wǒ ruò zaì wáng yǎnqián méng ēn , wáng ruò yǐwéi mĕi , wǒ suǒ yuàn de , shì yuàn wáng jiāng wǒde xìngméng cìgĕi wǒ . wǒ suǒ qiú de , shì qiú wáng jiāng wǒde bĕn zú cìgĕi wǒ .

4 Yīn wǒ hé wǒde bĕn zú beì maì le , yào jiǎnchú shā lù mièjué wǒmen . wǒmen ruò beì maì wèi nú wèi bì , wǒ yĕ bì kǒu bù yán . dàn wáng de sún shī , dírén wàn bùnéng bǔzú .

5 Yàhāsuílǔ wáng wèn wáng hòu Yǐsītiĕ shuō , shàn gǎn qǐ yì rúcǐ xíng de shì shuí . zhè rén zaì nǎli ne .