Esther 5:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

If I have found favour in the eyes of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and perform my request,  may the king and Haman come to the banquet I will prepare for them.  Tomorrow I will do what the king has asked.’

Cross References

Proverbs 16:9

A person’s heart plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps.

Esther 7:3

Queen Esther answered, ‘If I have found favour with you, Your Majesty, and if the king is pleased,  spare my life; this is my request. And spare my people; this is my desire.

Esther 8:5

She said, ‘If it pleases the king and I have found favour with him, if the matter seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his eyes,  let a royal edict be written. Let it revoke the documents the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.

Esther 5:7

Esther answered, ‘This is my petition and my request:

Esther 5:12

‘What’s more,’ Haman added, ‘Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she had prepared. I am invited again tomorrow to join her with the king.

Esther 1:9

Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women of King Ahasuerus’s palace.

Esther 7:1

The king and Haman came to feast  , with Esther the queen.