Esther 5:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Esther said in answer, My prayer and my request is this:

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  • Esth 7:1-3
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    88%

    1So the king and Haman came to take wine with Esther the queen.

    2And the king said to Esther again on the second day, while they were drinking, What is your prayer, Queen Esther? for it will be given to you; and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.

    3Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request:

  • Esth 5:1-6
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    1Now on the third day, Esther put on her queen's robes, and took her place in the inner room of the king's house, facing the king's house: and the king was seated on his high seat in the king's house, facing the doorway of the house.

    2And when the king saw Esther the queen waiting in the inner room, looking kindly on her he put out the rod of gold in his hand to her. So Esther came near and put her fingers on the top of the rod.

    3Then the king said, What is your desire, Queen Esther, and what is your request? I will give it to you, even to the half of my kingdom.

    4And Esther in answer said, If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the feast which I have made ready for him.

    5Then the king said, Let Haman come quickly, so that what Esther has said may be done. So the king and Haman came to the feast which Esther had made ready.

    6And while they were drinking wine the king said to Esther, What is your prayer? for it will be given to you and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.

  • Esth 5:8
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    8If I have the king's approval, and if it is the king's pleasure to give me my prayer and do my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast which I will make ready for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.

  • Esth 4:15-17
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    15Then Esther sent them back to Mordecai with this answer:

    16Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.

    17So Mordecai went away and did everything as Esther had said.

  • Esth 9:12-13
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    12And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have put five hundred men to death in Shushan, as well as the ten sons of Haman: what then have they done in the rest of the kingdom! Now what is your prayer? for it will be given to you; what other request have you? and it will be done.

    13Then Esther said, If it is the king's pleasure, let authority be given to the Jews in Shushan to do tomorrow as has been done today, and let orders be given for the hanging of Haman's ten sons.

  • Esth 8:3-7
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    3Then Esther again came before the king, falling down at his feet, and made request to him with weeping, that he would put a stop to the evil purposes of Haman the Agagite and the designs which he had made against the Jews.

    4Then the king put out the rod of gold to Esther, and she got up before the king.

    5And she said, If it is the king's pleasure and if I have his approval and this thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing to him, then let letters be sent giving orders against those which Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, sent out for the destruction of the Jews in all divisions of the kingdom:

    6For how is it possible for me to see the evil which is to overtake my nation? how may I see the destruction of my people?

    7Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, See now, I have given Esther the family of Haman, and he has come to his death by hanging, because he made an attack on the Jews.

  • Esth 7:5-8
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    5Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, Who is he and where is he who has had this evil thought in his heart?

    6And Esther said, Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman. Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.

    7And the king in his wrath got up from the feast and went into the garden: and Haman got to his feet to make a prayer for his life to Esther the queen: for he saw that the king's purpose was evil against him.

    8Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.

  • Neh 2:4
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    4Then the king said to me, What is your desire? So I made prayer to the God of heaven.

  • Esth 4:7-13
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    7And Mordecai gave him an account of what had taken place, and of the amount of money which Haman had said he would put into the king's store for the destruction of the Jews.

    8And he gave him the copy of the order which had been given out in Shushan for their destruction, ordering him to let Esther see it, and to make it clear to her; and to say to her that she was to go in to the king, requesting his mercy, and making prayer for her people.

    9And Hathach came back and gave Esther an account of what Mordecai had said.

    10Then Esther sent Hathach to say to Mordecai:

    11It is common knowledge among all the king's servants and the people of every part of the kingdom, that if anyone, man or woman, comes to the king in his inner room without being sent for, there is only one law for him, that he is to be put to death; only those to whom the king's rod of gold is stretched out may keep their lives: but I have not been sent for to come before the king these thirty days.

    12And they said these words to Mordecai.

    13Then Mordecai sent this answer back to Esther: Do not have the idea that you in the king's house will be safe from the fate of all the Jews.

  • Esth 5:12-13
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    12And Haman said further, Truly, Esther the queen let no man but myself come in to the feast which she had made ready for the king; and tomorrow again I am to be her guest with the king.

    13But all this is nothing to me while I see Mordecai the Jew seated by the king's doorway.

  • Esth 4:5
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    5Then Esther sent for Hathach, one of the king's unsexed servants whom he had given her for waiting on her, and she gave him orders to go to Mordecai and see what this was and why it was.

  • Esth 6:5
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    5And the king's servants said to him, See, Haman is waiting in the outer room. And the king said, Let him come in.

  • Esth 2:15-16
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    71%

    15Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And Esther was looked on kindly by all who saw her.

    16So Esther was taken in to King Ahasuerus in his house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his rule.

  • Esth 6:14
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    14While they were still talking, the king's servants came to take Haman to the feast which Esther had made ready.

  • 2 Sam 14:15
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    15And now it is my fear of the people which has made me come to say these words to my lord the king: and your servant said, I will put my cause before the king, and it may be that he will give effect to my request.

  • Esth 6:7
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    7And Haman, answering the king, said, For the man whom the king has delight in honouring,

  • Esth 8:1
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    1That day the king gave all the family of Haman, the hater of the Jews, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had made clear what he was to her.

  • Esth 2:9
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    9And he was pleased with the girl and was kind to her; and he quickly gave her what was needed for making her clean, and the things which were hers by right, and seven servant-girls who were to be hers from the king's house: and he had her and her servant-girls moved to the best place in the women's part of the house.

  • 1 Kgs 2:16
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    16Now I have one request to make to you, and do not say, No, to me. And she said to him, Say on.

  • Esth 2:18
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    18Then the king gave a great feast for all his captains and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he gave orders through all the divisions of his kingdom for a day of rest from work, and gave wealth from his store.

  • Esth 2:4
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    4And let the girl who is pleasing to the king be queen in place of Vashti. And the king was pleased with this suggestion; and he did so.

  • Esth 1:19
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    19If it is pleasing to the king, let an order go out from him, and let it be recorded among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it may never be changed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her place to another who is better than she.

  • Esth 2:22
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    22And Mordecai, having knowledge of their purpose, sent word of it to Esther the queen; and Esther gave the news to the king in Mordecai's name.

  • Esth 1:21
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    21And this suggestion seemed good to the king and the captains; and the king did as Memucan said;

  • Esth 9:32
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    32The order given by Esther gave the force of law to the rules about the Purim; and it was recorded in the book.