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Ester 5:4
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Maka sembah Ester: Jikalau kiranya berkenan kepada tuanku, hendaklah pada hari ini tuanku serta Haman datang kepada perjamuan yang telah patik perbuat akan tuanku.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If it seem: Esther 5:8, Proverbs 29:11
the banquet: Mishteh, from shathah, "to drink," a compotation. feast, or banquet accompanied with drinking; the drinking in the East being at the beginning, and not at the end of the entertainment. Olearius, describing an entertainment at the Persian court, says, "The floor of the hall was covered with cotton cloth, which was covered with all sorts of fruits and sweetmeats in basons of gold. With them was served up excellent Shiraz wine. After an hour's time, the sweetmeats were removed, to make way for the more substantial part of the entertainment, such as rice, boiled and roast mutton, etc. When the company had been at table an hour and a half, warm water was brought, in a ewer of gold, for washing; and grace being said, they began to retire without speaking a word, according to the custom of the country." Esther 5:8, Esther 3:15, Genesis 27:25, Genesis 32:20, Psalms 112:5, 1 Corinthians 14:20
Reciprocal: Ezra 6:11 - timber Esther 1:9 - the queen
Cross-References
And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth.
This is the booke of the generations of Ada. In the day that God created man, in the lykenesse of God made he hym.
And Adam lyued an hundreth and thirtie yeres, and begate a sonne in his owne lykenesse, after his image, & called his name Seth.
And Seth lyued after he begat Enos eyght hundreth and seuen yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.
And Enos lyued after he begate Kenan eyght hundreth & fiftie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
And Kenan liued after he begate Mahalaleel eyght hudreth & fourtie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
And Iered liued after he begat Henoch, eyght hundreth yeres, & begate sonnes and daughters.
And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.
And agayne Methusalah lyued after he begat Lamech seue hundreth eightie and two yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
And Lamech lyued after he begat Noah, fiue hudreth ninetie & fiue yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Esther answered, if it seem good unto the king,.... She humbly submits it to his pleasure, suggesting it would be exceeding grateful to her, could it be granted:
let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him; for the king; and supposing it would be acceptable to him, and the rather engage him to come to it, she invited his favourite; and chiefly, that she might have an opportunity of accusing him before the king to his face, and when alone.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Esther seems to have been afraid to make her real request of Xerxes too abruptly. She concluded that the king would understand that she had a real petition in the background, and would recur to it, as in fact he did Esther 5:6; Esther 7:2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Esther 5:4. Let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet — It was necessary to invite Haman to prevent his suspicion, and that he might not take any hasty step which might have prevented the execution of the great design.