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Esther 7:3

And she answered and said, If I have found favor in the sight of the king, let my life be granted to my petition, and my people to my request.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

In Context

2And the king said to Esther at the banquet on the second day, What is it, queen Esther? and what is your request, and what is your petition? and it shall be done for you, to the half of my kingdom.

4For both I and my people are sold for destruction, and pillage, and slavery; both we and our children for bondmen and bondwomen: and I consented not to it, for the + 7:4 see Heb. slanderer is not worthy of the king's palace.

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Cross References

2 Kings 1:13And the king + 1:13 Gr. added yet to send. sent yet again a captain and his fifty. And the third captain of fifty came, and knelt on his knees before Eliu, and entreated him, and spoke to him and said, O man of God, let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your eyes.

Esther 5:8if I have found favor in the sight of the king, let the king and Aman come again to-morrow to the feast which I shall prepare for them, and to-morrow I will do the same.

Job 2:4And the devil answered and said to the Lord, Skin for skin, all that a man has will he give as a ransom for his life.

Jeremiah 38:26Therefore I awake, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

Matthew Henry on Esther 7:2-7

Haman Accused by Esther. ( b. c. 510.) 1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. 2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom. 3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: 4… Read the whole commentary →

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