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.
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Gill's Exposition
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish,.... She makes use of these several words, to express the utter destruction of her and her people, without any exception;…
Barnes' Notes
The king now learned, perhaps for the first time, that his favorite was a Jewess. Although the enemy ... - i. e. “although the enemy (Haman) would not (even in that case) compensate (by his payment to…
Adam Clarke
To be destroyed, to be slain - She here repeats the words which Haman put into the decree. See Est 3:13.
Could not countervail the king's damage - Even the ten thousand talents of silver could not be…
The king in humour, and Haman out of humour, meet at Esther's table. Now,
I. The king urged Esther, a third time, to tell him what her request was, for he longed to know, and repeated his promise that…
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