Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
Then Queen Esther answered and said, 'If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be spared as my request, and my people as what I ask for.'
Queen Esther is bravely asking the king to save her life and the lives of her people, revealing that she herself is Jewish and under threat.
📚 Historical Context
This occurs at the second banquet Esther prepared for King Xerxes and Haman. Esther had been hiding her Jewish identity, but Haman's decree to destroy all Jews in the Persian Empire meant she would die too. This was the climactic moment when she risked everything to reveal her ethnicity and plead for her people's survival.
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