Esther’s Banquet

Now it happened (A)on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in (B)the inner court of the king’s palace, across from the king’s house, while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, facing the entrance of the [a]house.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 5:1 LXX adds many extra details in vv. 1, 2

Esther’s Request to the King

On the third day Esther put on her royal robes(A) and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king’s(B) hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance.

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So the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered (A)the outer court of the king’s palace (B)to suggest that the king hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

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The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to speak to the king about impaling Mordecai on the pole he had set up for him.

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