Then she said, “I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Make your request, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”
Esther 5:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even to half of my kingdom, it shall be given you.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the king said to her, What will you have, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of the kingdom. American Standard Version (1901) Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be given thee even to the half of the kingdom. Common English Bible Then the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What do you want? I’ll give you anything—even half the kingdom.” Catholic Public Domain Version The king's servants, who presided over the doors of the palace, said to him, "Why do you, more than the others, not observe the king's command?" English Standard Version 2016 And the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.” |
Then she said, “I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Make your request, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”
At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, “Ask what I should give you.”
Then the king said to me, “What do you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let the king and Haman come today to a banquet that I have prepared for the king.”
While they were drinking wine, the king said to Esther, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”
On the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”
The king said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred people and the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled.”
And he swore to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, even half of my kingdom.”
The tribune took him by the hand, drew him aside privately, and asked, “What is it that you have to report to me?”