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Esther 7:2 open_in_new
petition... request. See note on Esther 5:6.
kingdom. See note on Esther 5:3.
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Esther 7:3 open_in_new
my life. my soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. Life put before petition, and her People put before her request.
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Esther 7:4 open_in_new
are. have been.
sold. Implying that. bargain had been made.
destroyed... slain... perish. Note the Figure of speech Synonymia (App-6), to emphasize the urgency of her petition. Compare Esther 3:13.
perish. See note on Esther 3:13.
countervail. make good, or compensate.
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Esther 7:5 open_in_new
answered and said. Note the idiom. threatened and said. See note on Deuteronomy 1:41.
WHO IS HE, AND WHERE IS HE... ? This is the fifth Acrostic, which gives (not Jehovah but) the Divine Name "I AM" of Exodus 3:14. See App-60.
HE. Note the emphatic repetition of this pronoun.
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Esther 7:7 open_in_new
life. soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
THAT THERE WAS EVIL DETERMINED AGAINST HIM. This is the fourth, and last, of the four acrostics exhibiting the name Jehovah in this book. See App-60.
the king. Note the Figure of speech Epanadiplosis, the verse beginning and ending with the same word, marking and emphasizing its importance.
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Esther 7:8 open_in_new
bed. couch.
Will he force... ? Figure of speech Erotesis.
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Esther 7:9 open_in_new
gallows. See note on Esther 5:14.
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Esther 7:10 open_in_new
they hanged Hainan. See note on "Benjamite" (Esther 2:5).