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Esther 5:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

What is thy petition? Ahasuerus has understood that it was not for the mere pleasure of entertaining himself and his prime minister at a banquet that Esther adventured her life. He knows that she must still have a request—the real favour that she wants him to grant—in the background.

He therefore repeats the inquiry and the premise that he had made previously (verse 8).

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