Esther 5:8

If I have found favour 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 shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.

If I have found {H4672} favour {H2580} in the sight {H5869} of the king {H4428}, and if it please {H2895} the king {H4428} to grant {H5414} my petition {H7596}, and to perform {H6213} my request {H1246}, let the king {H4428} and Haman {H2001} come {H935} to the banquet {H4960} that I shall prepare {H6213} for them, and I will do {H6213} to morrow {H4279} as the king {H4428} hath said {H1697}.

Then Ester answered, "My request, what I want, is this: if I have won the king's favor, if it pleases the king to grant my request and do what I want, let the king and Haman come to the banquet which I will prepare for them; and tomorrow I will do as the king has said."

If 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.”

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 shall prepare for them, and I will do to-morrow as the king hath said.

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Cross-References

  • Proverbs 16:9 (4 votes)

    ¶ A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

  • Esther 7:3 (4 votes)

    Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

  • Esther 6:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

  • Esther 6:14 (3 votes)

    And while they [were] yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.

  • Esther 8:5 (3 votes)

    And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing [seem] right before the king, and I [be] 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 which [are] in all the king's provinces: