(0.97791304239401) | Est 7:2 | On the second day of the banquet of wine the king asked Esther, 8220;What is your request, Queen Esther? It shall be granted to you. And what is your petition? Ask up to half the kingdom, and it shall be done!8221;p> |
(0.97791304239401) | Est 7:3 | <p class="bodytext">Queen Esther replied, 8220;If I have met with your approval,<n id="1" /> O king, and if the king is so inclined, grant me my life as my request, and my people as my petition. |
(0.97791304239401) | Est 8:1 | <t /><p class="bodytext">On that same day King Ahasuerus gave the estate<n id="1" /> of Haman, that adversary of the Jews, to Queen Esther. Now Mordecai had come before the king, for Esther had revealed how he was related to her. |
(0.97791304239401) | Est 8:7 | <p class="bodytext">King Ahasuerus replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, 8220;Look, I have already given Haman8217;s estate to Esther, and he has been hanged on the gallows because he took hostile action<n id="1" /> against the Jews. |
(0.97791304239401) | Est 8:11 | <p class="bodytext">The king thereby allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and to stand up for themselves 8211; to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any army of whatever people or province that should become their adversaries, including their women and children,<n id="1" /> and to confiscate their property. |
(0.97791304239401) | Est 9:12 | Then the king said to Queen Esther, 8220;In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman! What then have they done in the rest of the king8217;s provinces? What is your request? It shall be given to you. What other petition do you have? It shall be done.8221;p> |
(0.97791304239401) | Est 9:13 | <p class="bodytext">Esther replied, 8220;If the king is so inclined, let the Jews who are in Susa be permitted to act tomorrow also according to today8217;s law, and let them hang the ten sons of Haman on the gallows.8221;p> |