Esther 8:5 meaning and explanation
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
Esther 8:5, Berean Standard Bible
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Esther speaks here to King Xerxes in the Persian court at Susa, after Haman's plot against the Jews has been exposed and Haman himself hanged. She pleads in the formal, layered style of court petition, piling up conditions before making her request.
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