With many vows he said to her, “I swear that I will give you anything you ask for, even as much as half my kingdom!”
He exclaimed, “May God strike me dead if Elisha is not beheaded before the day is over!”
“What is it, Queen Esther?” the king asked. “Tell me what you want, and you shall have it—even if it is half my empire.”
Over the wine the king asked her, “Tell me what you want, and you shall have it. I will grant your request, even if you ask for half my empire.”
for a second time. Over the wine the king asked her again, “Now, Queen Esther, what do you want? Tell me and you shall have it. I'll even give you half the empire.”
Have you been caught by your own words, trapped by your own promises?
that he promised her, “I swear that I will give you anything you ask for!”
“All this I will give you,” the Devil said, “if you kneel down and worship me.”
So the girl went out and asked her mother, “What shall I ask for?” “The head of John the Baptist,” she answered.
Then Saul made a sacred vow. “By the living Lord I promise that you will not be punished for doing this,” he told her.