Esther 8:4 KJV — MannaFest

Esther 8:4

Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

The king extended the gold scepter toward Esther, and she arose and stood before the king.

YLT

and the king holdeth out to Esther the golden sceptre, and Esther riseth, and standeth before the king,

DBT

And the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. And Esther arose and stood before the king,

About this book

Old Testament

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Esther — A Jewish orphan becomes queen of Persia; Haman plots genocide; Mordecai and Esther intervene; deliverance comes by providence — and God's name never once appears in the book.

Author: Anonymous; some rabbinic tradition attributes to Mordecai
Date: Events c. 483–473 BC, during Xerxes I's reign (Heb. Ahasuerus); compilation 4th–5th century BC

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Esther 5:2
And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
Esther 4:11
All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Her petition is that the king, having put away Haman, would put away the mischief of Haman and his device against the Jews, that that might not take place now that he was taken off. Many a man's mischief survives him, and the wickedness he devised operates when he is gone.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther--in token that her request was accepted, and that she needed no longer to maintain the humble attitude of a suppliant.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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