Esther 7:4

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Summary

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

We are sold

To be destroyed, etc

Esther 3:13

Esther 8:11

Psalm 44:22

But if we

The enemy

Esther 7:6

Esther 3:9

Bible References

We are sold

If it pleases the king, let a [decree] be issued to destroy them, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to those who do the job, to bring to the treasury of the king."

and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman has promised to pay to the treasury of the king for the destruction of the Jews.

And Yahweh shall bring you back [to] Egypt in ships by the route that I {promised} to you [that] '{You shall not see it again}!' And you shall sell yourself there to your enemies as slaves and as female slaves, but there will not be a buyer."

Stay with me! Do not fear, because he who seeks my life seeks your life. You are in good care with me."

To be destroyed, etc

Letters [were] sent by couriers to all the provinces of the king to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, {both young and old}, women and children, on one day, the thirteenth day of the month, that [is] Adar, and to plunder their goods.

[In them] the king allowed the Jews who [were] in every city to assemble and {defend their lives}, to destroy and kill and annihilate any army of any people or province attacking them, including women and children, and to plunder their spoil,

Rather, on account of you we are killed {all day long}; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.

But if we

Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit [is there] if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Therefore you [are] cursed; some of you will always be slaves as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God."

Now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our sons are like their sons. Look, we are subduing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and there are some from our daughters being molested. {We are powerless}, and our fields and vineyards [belong] to others."

And the sons of Judah and Jerusalem you sold to the sons of the Greeks, in order to remove them from their border.

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke [the punishment], because they sell the righteous for money and the poor for a pair of sandals!

The enemy

And Esther said, "The adversary and enemy [is] this evil Haman!" And Haman was terrified before the king and queen.

If it pleases the king, let a [decree] be issued to destroy them, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to those who do the job, to bring to the treasury of the king."