229 : Basic English : Esther 7,8,9; Acts 26 ) 1. So the king and Haman came to take wine with Esther the queen.
2. And the king said to Esther again on the second day, while they were drinking, What is your prayer, Queen Esther? for it will be given to you; and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.
3. Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request:
4. For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.
5. Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, Who is he and where is he who has had this evil thought in his heart?
; AB church Lausanne )
