Ester 7:3

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Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sahut permaisuri Ester, sembahnya: Ya tuanku! jikalau kiranya patik sudah beroleh keridlaan pada pemandangan tuanku, dan jikalau kiranya baik pada sangka tuanku, karuniakan apalah kepada patik nyawa patik karena sebab peminta patik, dan nyawa bangsa patikpun karena sebab pemohon patik.

Contextual Overview

¹ And the king and Haman came to bancket with the queene Esther. ² And the king saide againe vnto Esther on the seconde day at the bancket of wine: What is thy petition queene Esther, that it may be geuen thee? And what requirest thou? if it be euen to the halfe of the empire, it shalbe done. ³ And Esther the queene aunswered, and saide: If I haue found grace in thy sight O king, and if it please the king, then graunt me my lyfe at my desire, and my people for my petitions sake. ⁴ For we are solde I and my people to be destroyed, to be slaine, and to perishe: And would God that we were solde to be bondmen and bondwomen, then would I holde my tongue: although the enemie coulde not recompence the kinges losse. ⁵ The king Ahasuerus aunswered and saide vnto queene Esther: Who is he? And where is he, that dare presume in his minde to do after that maner? ⁶ And Esther saide: the enemie and aduersarie is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was exceedingly afrayde before the king and the queene.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

let my life: Esther 7:7, 1 Kings 20:31, 2 Kings 1:13, Job 2:4, Jeremiah 38:26

my people: Esther 4:8, Psalms 122:6-9

Reciprocal: Ezra 4:22 - why should Nehemiah 2:5 - If it please Esther 8:5 - if I Proverbs 11:5 - direct Proverbs 31:26 - openeth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Esther the queen answered and said,.... Not rolling herself at the king's knees, as Severus f writes; but rather, as the former Targum, lifting up her eyes to heaven, and perhaps putting up a secret ejaculation for direction and success:

if I have found favour in thy sight, O king; as she certainly had heretofore, and even now:

and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition; not riches, nor honour, nor any place or post at court, or in any of the king's dominions for any friend of her's, was her petition; but for her own life, that that might not be taken away, which was included in the grant the king had made to Haman, though ignorantly, to slay all the Jews, she being one of them:

and my people at my request; that is, the lives of her people also, that was her request; her own life and her people's were all she had to ask.

f Hist. Sacr. l. 2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 7:3. Let my life be given me — This was very artfully, as well as very honestly, managed; and was highly calculated to work on the feelings of the king. What! is the life of the queen, whom I most tenderly love, in any kind of danger?