Esther 7:1

1 So the king and Haman went to Queen Ester's banquet;

Esther 7:1 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 7:1

So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
] Or, "to drink with her" ^F5, that is, wine; for in the next verse it is called a banquet of wine; so they did according to the invitation the queen had given them, ( Esther 5:8 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (twtvl) "ut biberent", V. L. Tigurine version; "ad bibendum", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius, Vatablus.

Esther 7:1 In-Context

1 So the king and Haman went to Queen Ester's banquet;

2 and the king again said to Ester at the wine banquet, "Whatever your request, Queen Ester, you will be granted it; whatever you want, up to half the kingdom, it will be done."

3 Ester the queen answered, "If I have won your favor, king, and if it pleases the king, then what I ask be given me is my own life and the lives of my people.

4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, killed, exterminated. If we had only been sold as men- and women-slaves, I would have remained quiet; since then [our] trouble would not have been worth the damage it would have caused the king [to alter the situation]."

5 King Achashverosh asked Ester the queen, "Who is he? Where is the man who dared to do such a thing?"