Esther 7:4 meaning and explanation

For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”

Esther 7:4, Berean Standard Bible

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Esther speaks these words at her second banquet, after the king has again offered to grant her request. She is a Jewish queen in Persia, and her people face a decree of annihilation that Haman arranged.

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