Esther 7:4 - Revised Standard Version

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, slain, and wiped out of existence! But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I would have held my tongue, for our affliction is not to be compared with the damage this will do to the king.

American Standard Version (1901)

for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s damage.

Common English Bible

We have been sold—I and my people—to be wiped out, killed, and destroyed. If we simply had been sold as male and female slaves, I would have said nothing. But no enemy can compensate the king for this kind of damage.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then Esther's maids and eunuchs went in and informed her. When she heard it, she was shocked, and she sent a garment to clothe him and to take away the sackcloth, but he would not accept it.

English Standard Version 2016

For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”

Esther 7:4 Cross References

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children are as their children; yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved; but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Esther 3:13

Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

Esther 3:9

If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries.”

Esther 7:5

Then King Ahasu-erus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, that would presume to do this?”

Esther 7:6

And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was in terror before the king and the queen.

Esther 8:11

By these the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to slay, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, with their children and women, and to plunder their goods,

Esther 8:6

For how can I endure to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”

Esther 9:25

but when Esther came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his wicked plot which he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Daniel 6:2

and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss.

Joel 3:6

You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.

Amos 2:6

Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—

Luke 12:45

But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Deuteronomy 28:68

And the Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey which I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no man will buy you.”

Joshua 9:23

Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall always be slaves, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

1 Samuel 22:23

Stay with me, fear not; for he that seeks my life seeks your life; with me you shall be in safekeeping.”