Esther 7:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁴ For my people and I have been sold  to destruction, death, and annihilation.  If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves,  I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ 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)

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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.

Esther 7:4 Cross References

Nehemiah 5:5

We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery.  Some of our daughters are already enslaved,  but we are powerless  because our fields and vineyards belong to others.’

Esther 3:13

Letters were sent by couriers  to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people #– #young and old, women and children #– #and plunder their possessions on a single day,  the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

Esther 3:9

If the king approves, let an order be drawn up authorising their destruction, and I will pay 345 tonnes of silver to  the officials to deposit in the royal treasury.’

Esther 7:5

King Ahasuerus spoke up and asked Queen Esther, ‘Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme? ’  ,

Esther 7:6

Esther answered, ‘The adversary and enemy  is this evil Haman.’ Haman stood terrified  before the king and queen.

Esther 8:11

The king’s edict gave the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate every ethnic and provincial army hostile to them, including women and children, and to take their possessions as spoils of war.

Esther 8:6

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people?  How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives? ’

Esther 9:25

But when the matter was brought before the king,  he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head  and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

Daniel 6:2

and over them three administrators, including Daniel.  These satraps would be accountable to them so that the king would not be defrauded.

Joel 3:6

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks  to remove them far from their own territory.

Amos 2:6

The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.

Luke 12:45

But if that servant says in his heart, “My master is delaying his coming,”   and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again.  There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.’

Joshua 9:23

Therefore you are cursed and will always be slaves #– #woodcutters and water-carriers for the house of my God.’

1 Samuel 22:23

Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for the one who wants to take my life wants to take your life.  You will be safe with me.’