5 “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces. 6 For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?” 7 So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.
Esther 8:5–7
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Greek Esther 8:4–6
4 Then the king extended the golden sceptre to Esther; and Esther arose to stand near the king. (WEB) 5 Esther said, “If it seems good to you, and I have found favor in your sight, let an order be sent that the letters sent by Haman may be reversed—letters that were wri… (WEB)
Greek Esther 7:3–5
3 She answered and said, “If I have found favor in the sight of the king, let my life be granted as my petition, and my people as my request. (WEB) 4 For both I and my people are sold for destruction, pillage, and genocide. If both we and our children were sold for male… (WEB)
Esther 9:12–14
12 who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do… 13 …
Esther 7:3–5
3 Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request. 4 For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had…
Esther 9:24–26
24 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them. 25 But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme…
Greek Esther 9:12–14
12 Then the king said to Esther, “The Jews have slain five hundred men in the city Susa. What do you think they have done in the rest of the country? What more do you ask, that it may be done for you?” (WEB) 13 Esther said to the king, “Let it be granted to the Jews to do… (WEB)
Greek Esther 4:7–9
7 Mordecai showed him what was done, and the promise which Haman had made the king of ten thousand talents to be paid into the treasury, that he might destroy the Jews. (WEB) 8 And he gave him the copy of what was published in Susa concerning their destruction to show t… (WEB)
Greek Esther 4:13–15
13 Then Mordecai said to Hathach, “Go, and say to her, ‘Esther, don’t say to yourself that you alone will escape in the kingdom, more than all the other Jews. (WEB) 14 For if you keep quiet on this occasion, help and protection will come to the Jews from another place; bu… (WEB)
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