What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled." 'Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be... Esther and Ruth - עמוד 31מאת Patricia K. Tull - 2003 - 94 דפיםתצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - מידע על ספר זה
| Catherine F. Vos - 1983 - 448 דפים
...a beseeching look in her eyes she fell on her knees and said, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me, and the life of my people. For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed." The king sprang up,... | |
| Irving Greenberg - 2011 - 470 דפים
...appeal to the king on the second day is a classic of galut mentality. "// I found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given to me at my request, and my people [spared] at my pleading: For we are sold, I and my people, to be... | |
| Kenneth M. Craig - 1995 - 196 דפים
...the narrative both Haman and Esther are unmasked in the king's presence: Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases...and the lives of my people — that is my request. For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. ..."... | |
| J. William Whedbee - 1998 - 336 דפים
...answer is a skillfully wrought piece of rhetoric designed to play upon the king's generosity toward her: "If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases...petition - and the lives of my people that is my request. For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we... | |
| Johanna W. H. Van Wijk-Bos - 1998 - 164 דפים
...(v. 14). ESTHER'S SECOND PARTY Esther 7 A Question of Life (7:1-6) 7:3 Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases...and the lives of my people — that is my request. 4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If... | |
| European Association for Jewish Studies. Congress - 1999 - 664 דפים
...expect tonight. Before going on, the actress playing Esther may take a little pause to increase tension: "let my life be given me — that is my petition —...and the lives of my people — that is my request." The banquet for three has turned into a theatrical pearl. It is thick with dramatic irony, extreme... | |
| Rahel R. Wasserfall - 1999 - 300 דפים
...half of the kingdom. Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to... | |
| Keith Sharp - 2019 - 106 דפים
...heart of Haman with panic. Then Queen Esther answered and said, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. "For we have been sold, my people and I, to be destroyed,... | |
| J. Robert Baker, Barbara Budde - 2002 - 164 דפים
...is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled." Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases...and the lives of my people — that is my request. For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we... | |
| Carol Bechtel - 2004 - 124 דפים
...your favor, O king," she begins, "and if it pleases the king ..." Then she cuts straight to the chase: let my life be given me — that is my petition —...and the lives of my people — that is my request. Further arguments follow, but this opening statement is worthy of immediate comment. Esther takes advantage... | |
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