Esterarbók 8:5

Heilögum Biblíunni

5 og mælti: "Ef konunginum þóknast svo og hafi ég fundið náð í augum hans og sé konunginum það ekki ógeðfellt og ef hann hefir mætur á mér, þá sé nú gefin út skrifleg skipun til þess að afturkalla bréfin, ráðagerð Hamans Hamdatasonar Agagíta, þau er hann ritaði til þess að láta eyða Gyðingum í öllum skattlöndum konungs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if I: Esther 7:3, Exodus 33:13, Exodus 33:16, 1 Samuel 20:29

I be pleasing: Esther 2:4, Esther 2:17

letters: Heb. device, Esther 3:12, Esther 3:13

which he wrote: or, who wrote

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 13:4 - the thing Nehemiah 2:5 - If it please Esther 1:19 - it please the king Esther 8:8 - may no man reverse Esther 9:3 - the fear Proverbs 18:13 - that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And said, if it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes,.... This heap of phrases, which signify much the same thing, are used to work upon the king's affections, and to show how submissive she was to his will:

let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces. She wisely takes no notice of any concern the king had in them, but suggests as that she looked upon them as forged by Haman, who put the king's name and seal to them, without his knowledge and consent.