Esther 5:2

World English Bible (2000)

When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.

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  • Esth 4:11 : 11 "All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days."
  • Esth 8:4 : 4 Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.
  • Prov 21:1 : 1 The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
  • Acts 7:10 : 10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
  • Acts 10:4 : 4 He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, "What is it, Lord?" He said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
  • Ps 116:1 : 1 I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
  • Gen 32:28 : 28 He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
  • Neh 1:11 : 11 Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." Now I was cup bearer to the king.
  • Esth 2:9 : 9 The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king's house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women's house.

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  • Esth 8:1-5
    5 verses
    88%

    1 On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews' enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

    2 The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

    3 Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

    4 Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.

    5 She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces.

  • Esth 5:1
    82%

    1 Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, next to the king's house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.

  • Esth 2:13-19
    7 verses
    80%

    13 The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women's house to the king's house.

    14 In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women's house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.

    15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

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

    17 The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

    18 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king's bounty.

    19 When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate.

  • Esth 5:3-8
    6 verses
    79%

    3 Then the king asked her, "What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom."

    4 Esther said, "If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him."

    5 Then the king said, "Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said." So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

    6 The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed."

    7 Then Esther answered and said, "My petition and my request is this.

    8 If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said."

  • Esth 2:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 So it happened, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken into the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

    9 The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king's house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women's house.

  • Esth 7:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

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

    2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed."

    3 Then Esther the queen answered, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

  • Esth 2:4
    71%

    4 and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." The thing pleased the king, and he did so.

  • Esth 4:8-12
    5 verses
    71%

    8 He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

    9 Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

    10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:

    11 "All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days."

    12 They told to Mordecai Esther's words.

  • Esth 7:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

    8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?" As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

  • Esth 6:5
    71%

    5 The king's servants said to him, "Behold, Haman stands in the court." The king said, "Let him come in."

  • Esth 1:11
    70%

    11 to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.

  • Esth 4:5
    70%

    5 Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.

  • Esth 6:14
    70%

    14 While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

  • Esth 2:22
    70%

    22 This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai's name.

  • Esth 1:2
    70%

    2 that in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,

  • Esth 8:7
    69%

    7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, "See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.

  • Esth 7:5
    69%

    5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, "Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?"

  • Esth 9:25
    68%

    25 but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

  • Esth 4:15
    68%

    15 Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,

  • Esth 2:11
    68%

    11 Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women's house, to find out how Esther did, and what would become of her.

  • Esth 9:12
    68%

    12 The king said to Esther the queen, "The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done."

  • Esth 1:19
    68%

    19 "If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

  • Esth 2:1
    67%

    1 After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.