Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Esther replied, “My petition and my request is this: New Living Translation Esther replied, “This is my request and deepest wish. English Standard Version Then Esther answered, “My wish and my request is: Berean Standard Bible Esther replied, “This is my petition and my request: King James Bible Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is; New King James Version Then Esther answered and said, “My petition and request is this: New American Standard Bible So Esther replied, “My request and my wish is: NASB 1995 So Esther replied, “My petition and my request is: NASB 1977 So Esther answered and said, “My petition and my request is: Legacy Standard Bible So Esther answered and said, “My petition and my request is: Amplified Bible Then Esther replied, “My petition and my request is this: Christian Standard Bible Esther answered, “This is my petition and my request: Holman Christian Standard Bible Esther answered, “This is my petition and my request: American Standard Version Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is: English Revised Version Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is; GOD'S WORD® Translation Esther answered, "My request? What would I like? Good News Translation Esther replied, International Standard Version Esther answered, "This is my petition and my request: Majority Standard Bible Esther replied, “This is my petition and my request: NET Bible Esther responded, "My request and my petition is this: New Heart English Bible Then Esther answered and said, "My petition and my request is this. Webster's Bible Translation Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is: World English Bible Then Esther answered and said, “My petition and my request is this. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd Esther answers and says, “My petition and my request [is]: Young's Literal Translation And Esther answereth and saith, 'My petition and my request is: Smith's Literal Translation And Esther will answer and say, My asking and my seeking: Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd Esther answered: My petition and request is this: Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible Esther replied: “This is my petition and request: New Revised Standard Version Then Esther said, “This is my petition and request: Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThen Esther answered and said, My petition and my request is this: Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And Esthir answered and she said: “My request and my petition, OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Then answered Esther, and said: 'My petition and my request is-- Brenton Septuagint Translation And she said, My request and my petition are: Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Esther Goes Before the King…6And as they drank their wine, the king said to Esther, “What is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.” 7Esther replied, “This is my petition and my request: 8If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”… Cross References Esther 7:2-3 and as they drank their wine on that second day, the king asked once more, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.” / 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. Esther 6:1-3 That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him. / And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes. / The king inquired, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this act?” “Nothing has been done for him,” replied the king’s attendants. Esther 4:15-16 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: / “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!” Esther 8:3-6 And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews. / The king extended the gold scepter toward Esther, and she arose and stood before the king. / “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. ... Esther 2:17-18 And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti. / Then the king held a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his officials and servants. He proclaimed a tax holiday in the provinces and gave gifts worthy of the king’s bounty. Esther 3:8-9 Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them. / If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.” Esther 9:12-13 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 you request? It will be fulfilled.” / Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.” Nehemiah 2:4-5 “What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven / and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it.” Daniel 2:16-18 So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him some time, so that he could give him the interpretation. / Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, / urging them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. Genesis 18:27-33 Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes— / suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.” / Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.” ... 1 Samuel 25:24-31 She fell at his feet and said, “My lord, may the blame be on me alone, but please let your servant speak to you; hear the words of your servant. / My lord should pay no attention to this scoundrel Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means Fool, and folly accompanies him. I, your servant, did not see my lord’s young men whom you sent. / Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, since the LORD has held you back from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, may your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal. ... 2 Samuel 14:12-17 Then the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied. / The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son? / For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him. ... Proverbs 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD. Proverbs 21:1 The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases. Matthew 7:7-8 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. / For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Treasury of Scripture Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is; Jump to Previous Esther Petition Prayer RequestJump to Next Esther Petition Prayer RequestEsther 5 1. Esther, adventuring on the king's favor, obtains the grace of the golden sceptre, 4. and invites the king and Haman to a banquet. 6. She, being encouraged by the king in her suit, invites them to another banquet. 9. Haman, proud of his advancement, repines at the contempt of Mordecai. 14. By the counsel of Zeresh he prepares for him a gallows. Esther replied The phrase "Esther replied" indicates a moment of response and action from Queen Esther. In the Hebrew text, the word for "replied" is "וַתַּעַן" (vata'an), which conveys a sense of answering or responding. This moment is significant as it shows Esther's courage and wisdom in addressing King Xerxes. Historically, Esther's position as queen was precarious, and her ability to speak directly to the king was a testament to her bravery and the favor she had found in his eyes. Her reply is a pivotal moment in the narrative, demonstrating her strategic approach to saving her people. My petition and my request is this CHAPTER 5:9-14 HAMAN, EXULTING AT THESE SIGNS OF ROYAL FAVOUR, IS THE MORE EXASPERATED AT MORDECAI'S CONTEMPT OF HIM. AT THE BIDDING OF HIS WIFE HE RESOLVES TO IMPALE MORDECAI, AND CAUSES A LOFTY CROSS TO BE ERECTED FOR THE PURPOSE (Esther 5:9-14). The favour shown him by the king and queen in admitting him to the very close intimacy implied in their making him the sole companion of their private hours, produced in Haman a dangerous exaltation of spirit. He seemed to himself to have attained the pinnacle of a subject's greatness. Returning home in this frame of mind, and having to pass through the gate where Mordecai was on duty, he was more vexed than usual with that official's disrespect, which was more pointed and open than it had ever been before (ver. 9). However, he took no immediate notice of the porter's conduct (ver. 10), but proceeded to his own house, where he assembled his friends, and communicated to them, and at the same time to Zeresh his wife, the circumstances which had so greatly raised his spirits. The climax was that "Esther the queen had let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but himself; nay, more, he was again invited on the morrow to banquet with her and the king" (ver. 12). He added, however, Mordecai's insult remaining fresh in his recollection, that all his glory, all his honours, availed him nothing - were as nothing in his eyes - so long as he was condemned to see Mordecai the Jew every time that he passed though the palace gate, and to be treated by him with contempt and contumely (ver. 13). Upon this Zeresh made, and Haman's friends approved, a proposal that a lofty cross should be at once erected in the court of Haman's house, on which Mordecai should be impaled, with the king's consent, as soon as it was finished. Haman agreed to this, recovered his spirits, and gave orders for the cross to be made (ver. 14). Hebrew Estherאֶסְתֵּ֖ר (’es·têr) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 635: Esther -- 'star', Ahasuerus' queen who delivered Israel replied, וַתַּ֥עַן (wat·ta·‘an) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 6030: To answer, respond “This is my petition שְׁאֵלָתִ֖י (šə·’ê·lā·ṯî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 7596: Request, thing asked for and my request: וּבַקָּשָׁתִֽי׃ (ū·ḇaq·qā·šā·ṯî) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1246: Request, entreaty Links Esther 5:7 NIVEsther 5:7 NLT Esther 5:7 ESV Esther 5:7 NASB Esther 5:7 KJV Esther 5:7 BibleApps.com Esther 5:7 Biblia Paralela Esther 5:7 Chinese Bible Esther 5:7 French Bible Esther 5:7 Catholic Bible OT History: Esther 5:7 Then Esther answered and said My petition (Est Esth. Es) |