Esther’s First Banquet and Delay

Esther 5:4-8

But she answered: If it please the king, I beseech thee to come to me this day, and Aman with thee to the banquet which I have prepared.

And the king said forthwith: Call ye Aman quickly, that he may obey Esther's will. So the king and Aman came to the banquet which the queen had prepared for them.

And the king said to her, after he had drunk wine plentifully: What dost thou desire should be given thee? and for what thing askest thou? although thou shouldst ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.

And Esther answered: My petition and request is this:

If I have found favour in the king's sight, and if it please the king to give me what I ask, and to fulfil my petition: let the king and Aman come to the banquet which I have prepared them, and to morrow I will open my mind to the king.

Esther’s First Banquet and Delay

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