Esther 5:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If I have won the king’s favor, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and then I will do as the king has said.”

Cross References

Esther 1:9

Furthermore, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in the palace of King Ahasuerus.

Esther 5:12

Haman added, “Even Queen Esther let no one but myself come with the king to the banquet that she prepared. Tomorrow also I am invited by her, together with the king.

Esther 5:7

Then Esther answered, “This is my petition and request:

Esther 7:1

So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.

Esther 7:3

Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me—that is my petition—and the lives of my people—that is my request.

Esther 8:5

She said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have won his favor, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I have his approval, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote giving orders to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.

Proverbs 16:9

The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps.