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Esther 7:1

So the king and Haman went to dinner with Queen Esther. At this second dinner, while they were drinking wine the king again asked, "Queen Esther, what would you like? Half of my kingdom! Just ask and it's yours."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Readings, Select;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eating, Mode of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Esther;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Sathrabuzanes;   Shethar-Bozenai;   Sisinnes;   Tattenai;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Banquet;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Queen;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 29;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The king and Haman came to feast with Esther the queen.
Hebrew Names Version
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Ester the queen.
King James Version
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
English Standard Version
So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.
New Century Version
So the king and Haman went in to eat with Queen Esther.
New English Translation
So the king and Haman came to dine with Queen Esther.
Amplified Bible
So the king and Haman came to drink wine with Esther the queen.
New American Standard Bible
Now the king and Haman came to drink wine with Esther the queen.
World English Bible
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the King and Haman came to banket with the Queene Ester.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the king and Haman came to drink wine with Esther the queen.
Berean Standard Bible
So the king and Haman went to dine with Esther the queen,
Contemporary English Version
The king and Haman were dining with Esther
Complete Jewish Bible
So the king and Haman went to Queen Ester's banquet;
Darby Translation
And the king and Haman came to drink with Esther the queen.
Easy-to-Read Version
So the king and Haman went to eat with Queen Esther.
George Lamsa Translation
SO the king and Haman went in to the banquet which Esther the queen had prepared.
Good News Translation
And so the king and Haman went to eat with Esther
Lexham English Bible
So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther.
Literal Translation
And the king and Haman came to the banquet of Queen Esther.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan the kynge and Aman came to the bancket that quene Hester had prepared,
American Standard Version
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
Bible in Basic English
So the king and Haman came to take wine with Esther the queen.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the king and Haman came to bancket with the queene Esther.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
King James Version (1611)
So the King and Haman came to banquet with Esther the Queene.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So the king and Aman went in to drink with the queen.
English Revised Version
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the kyng and Aaman entriden to the feeste, to drynke with the queen.
Update Bible Version
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
Webster's Bible Translation
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
New King James Version
So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther.
New Living Translation
So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther's banquet.
New Life Bible
So the king and Haman came to eat with Esther the queen.
New Revised Standard
So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the king and Haman came in, to banquet with Esther the queen.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.
Revised Standard Version
So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.
Young's Literal Translation
And the king cometh in, and Haman, to drink with Esther the queen,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now the king and Haman came to drink wine with Esther the queen.

Contextual Overview

1So the king and Haman went to dinner with Queen Esther. At this second dinner, while they were drinking wine the king again asked, "Queen Esther, what would you like? Half of my kingdom! Just ask and it's yours." 3 Queen Esther answered, "If I have found favor in your eyes, O King, and if it please the king, give me my life, and give my people their lives. 4 "We've been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed—sold to be massacred, eliminated. If we had just been sold off into slavery, I wouldn't even have brought it up; our troubles wouldn't have been worth bothering the king over." 5 King Xerxes exploded, "Who? Where is he? This is monstrous!" 6 "An enemy. An adversary. This evil Haman," said Esther. Haman was terror-stricken before the king and queen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

banquet: Heb. drink, Esther 3:15, Esther 5:8

Reciprocal: Amos 6:7 - and the

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
This is the story of Noah: Noah was a good man, a man of integrity in his community. Noah walked with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 7:1
Next God said to Noah, "Now board the ship, you and all your family—out of everyone in this generation, you're the righteous one.
Genesis 7:5
Noah did everything God commanded him.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth. Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood. Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. In seven days the floodwaters came.
Genesis 7:11
It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open. Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:13
That's the day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, accompanied by his wife and his sons' wives, boarded the ship. And with them every kind of wild and domestic animal, right down to all the kinds of creatures that crawl and all kinds of birds and anything that flies. They came to Noah and to the ship in pairs—everything and anything that had the breath of life in it, male and female of every creature came just as God had commanded Noah. Then God shut the door behind him.
Genesis 7:24
The floodwaters took over for 150 days.
Proverbs 10:9
Honesty lives confident and carefree, but Shifty is sure to be exposed.
Proverbs 14:26
The Fear-of- God builds up confidence, and makes a world safe for your children.
Proverbs 18:10
God 's name is a place of protection— good people can run there and be safe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. Or, "to drink with her" e, 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.

e לשתות "ut biberent", V. L. Tigurine version; "ad bibendum", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius, Vatablus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VII

The king at the banquet urges Esther to prefer her petition,

with the positive assurance that it shall be granted, 1, 2.

She petitions for her own life, and the life of her people,

who were sold to be destroyed, 3, 4.

The king inquires the author of this project, and Haman is

accused by the queen, 5, 6.

The king is enraged: Haman supplicates for his life; but the

king orders him to be hanged on the gallows he had prepared

for Mordecai, 7-10.

NOTES ON CHAP. VII


 
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