Ester 1:8
Konteks1:8 There were no restrictions on the drinking, 1 for the king had instructed all of his supervisors 2 that they should do as everyone so desired. 3
Ester 4:2
Konteks4:2 But he went no further than the king’s gate, for no one was permitted to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.
Ester 5:13
Konteks5:13 Yet all of this fails to satisfy me so long as I have to see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
Ester 7:4
Konteks7:4 For we have been sold 4 – both I and my people – to destruction and to slaughter and to annihilation! If we had simply been sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, for such distress would not have been sufficient for troubling the king.”
[1:8] 1 tn Heb “the drinking was according to law; there was no one compelling.”
[1:8] 2 tn Heb “every chief of his house”; KJV “all the officers of his house”; NLT “his staff.”
[1:8] 3 tn Heb “according to the desire of man and man.”
[7:4] 4 sn The passive verb (“have been sold”) is noncommittal and nonaccusatory with regard to the king’s role in the decision to annihilate the Jews.