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Esther 7:1-6

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1 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.
2 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, 1"What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? 2Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled."
3 Then Queen Esther answered, 3"If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request.
4 4For we have been sold, I and my people, 5to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king."
5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who has dared[a] to do this?"
6 And Esther said, 6"A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
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Esther 7:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ESTHER 7

Esther, being solicited by the king to tell him her petition, asks for her life and the lives of her people, who were sold to be destroyed, Es 7:1-4, the king, amazed at her request, inquires who was the person that dared to do so vile a thing; and was told by her it was Haman there present, Es 7:5,6 on which the king went out into the garden in wrath, and, returning, found Haman on Esther's bed, which still more incensed him; and being told that Haman had prepared a gallows for Mordecai, the king ordered that he himself should be hanged upon it, which was done accordingly, Es 7:7-10.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 6

  • 1. Esther 5:6; Esther 9:12
  • 2. Esther 5:3
  • 3. Esther 5:8
  • 4. Esther 3:9; Esther 4:7
  • 5. Esther 3:13; Esther 8:11
  • 6. See Esther 3:10

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Hebrew whose heart has filled him
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