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 5:13

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.”

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