If it please the king. Note the Alternation in this verse: The king. "If it please the king. "Esther. "And if. have found favour. "The king. "And... before the king. "Esther. "And. be pleasing in his eyes. "
the Jews. Some codices, with Aram, and Syriac, read "all the Jews".
5 And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devisedb by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces: