Esther 5:4

5:4 Esther replied, “If the king is so inclined, 1  let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”

Esther 5:12-13

5:12 Haman said, “Furthermore, Queen Esther invited 2  only me to accompany the king to the banquet that she prepared! And also tomorrow I am invited 3  along with the king. 5:13 Yet all of this fails to satisfy me so long as I have to see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

1 tn Heb “If upon the king it is good”; NASB “If it please the king.”

2 tn Heb “caused to come”; KJV “did let no man come in…but myself.”

3 tn Heb “called to her”; KJV “invited unto her”; NAB “I am to be her guest.”