Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Esther Invites the King and Haman to a Banquet
note
3 “What is it, Esther?” the king
asked. “Tell me what you want,
and you shall have it—even if it is
half of my empire.” note
4 Esther replied, “Today is a special
day for me. If it please my lord, I
would like you and Haman to be my
guests tonight at a banquet I am preparing
for you.”
5 The king then ordered Haman to
come quickly, so that they could be
Esther's guests. So the king and Haman
went to Esther's banquet.
6 Over the wine the king again said
to her, “Tell me what you want,
Queen Esther.”
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7 Esther replied,
8 “If my lord is
kind enough to grant my request, I
would like you and Haman to be my
guests tomorrow at another banquet
that I will prepare for you. It will be
just like this one.”
Haman Plots to Kill Mordecai
9 When Haman left the king he
was happy and in a good mood, until
he saw Mordecai the Jew in the
courtyard of the palace. That made
him furious,
10 but he went on home.
Then he invited his friends to his
house and asked his wife Zeresh to
join them.
11 He boasted to them
about how rich he was and about the
honor the king had paid him when
he promoted him to high office and
made him prime minister.
12 “What
is more,” Haman said, “Queen Esther
gave a banquet for no one but
the king and me, and we are invited
back tomorrow.
13 But none of this
means a thing to me as long as I see
that Jew Mordecai sitting in the
courtyard of the palace.”
14 Then his wife and all his friends
suggested, “Why don't you have a
gallows put up, seventy-five feet
high? Tomorrow morning you can
ask the king to have Mordecai
hanged on it, and then you can go
with the king to the banquet and enjoy
yourself.” Haman thought it was
a good idea, so he had the gallows
built.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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