Esther 7:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

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.

Esther 7:5

5 Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?