Esther 3:11

11 “Keep the money,” the king said to Haman, “and do with the people as you please.”

Esther 3:11 in Other Translations

11 And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.

11 And the king said to Haman, "The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you."

11 The king said, “The money and the people are both yours to do with as you see fit.”

11 "Go ahead," the king said to Haman. "It's your money - do whatever you want with those people."

11 Then the king told Haman, "The money and people are given to you to do with as you see fit."

Esther 3:11 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 3:11

And the king said unto Haman, the silver is given unto thee,
&c.] The 10,000 talents of silver Haman proposed to pay into the treasury were returned to him, or the king out of his great munificence refused to take them:

the people also, to do with them as seemeth good unto thee;
that is, the people of the Jews; he gave him full power to do with them as he thought fit, and who breathing revenge upon them, would not spare them.

Esther 3:11 In-Context

9 If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.”

10 So the king took his signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.

11 “Keep the money,” the king said to Haman, “and do with the people as you please.”

12 Then on the thirteenth day of the first month the royal secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each province and in the language of each people all Haman’s orders to the king’s satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples. These were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed with his own ring.

13 Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.