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Esther 5:7

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Esther replied, “This is my petition and my request:

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is:

KJV

Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;

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This verse in Esther 5

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Perhaps her heart failed her now when she was going to make her request, and she desired to take some further time for prayer, that God would give her a mouth and wisdom. The putting of it off thus, it is likely, she knew would be well taken as an expression of the great reverence she had for the king, and her unwillingness to be too pressing upon him.

This site's exposition

And as they drank their wine

on Esther 5:6-8

The king repeats his offer, and Esther defers a second time. It is sound statecraft, giving her time to judge Haman's temper and the king's mood. It also makes room for the story, since this postponement leaves the king with unfinished business on the very night that follows.

This site's exposition

Esther replied, “This is my petition

Esther replied with her petition and request, then put both off until tomorrow. Henry allows that her courage may have failed here, and he reads the delay as time for prayer and as reverence the king would welcome. Rabanus Maurus sees patience in it.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Rabanus Maurus

EXPLANATION ON THE BOOK OF ESTHER 8 · Written before 856.

proposed

This postponement of the petition is not due to a fault of laziness but must be attributed to the virtue of patience, clearly indicating that the reward of the righteous and the punishment of the sinners are reserved for the future. "Tomorrow," in fact, must …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then answered Esther and said, my petition and my request is. What she should for the present make; the principal one she had to ask, for wise reasons, she still deferred.

The words behind it

5 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַתַּ֥עַןand she answered

    vataanH6030 →

  • אֶסְתֵּ֖רEsther

    ʾesterH635 →55 times

  • וַתֹּאמַ֑רand she said

    vatomarH559 →5305 times

  • שְׁאֵלָתִ֖יpetition my

    sheelatiH7596 →14 times

  • וּבַקָּשָׁתִֽי׃and request my

    uvakashatiH1246 →8 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Esther

Esther Before the King — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Esther Before the King — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Esther: the study guide →Read Esther 5 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Rabanus Maurus, EXPLANATION ON THE BOOK OF ESTHER 8 and W. F. Adeney, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Expositor's Bible).

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