Esther 7:1
Good News Translation
And so the king and Haman went to eat with Esther

New Revised Standard Version
So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.

Contemporary English Version
The king and Haman were dining with Esther

New American Bible
So the king and Haman went to the banquet with Queen Esther.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.

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So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.

banquet.

Esther 3:15 The couriers that were sent made haste to fulfil the king's commandment. And immediately the edict was hung up in Susan, the king and Aman feasting together, and all the Jews that were in the city weeping.

Esther 5:8 If I have found favour in the king's sight, and if it please the king to give me what I ask, and to fulfil my petition: let the king and Aman come to the banquet which I have prepared them, and to morrow I will open my mind to the king.

Context
Esther Pleads for Her People
1So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.2And the king said to her again the second day, after he was warm with wine: What is thy petition, Esther, that it may be granted thee? and what wilt thou have done: although thou ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.…
Cross References
Esther 6:14
As they were yet speaking, the king's eunuchs came, and compelled him to go quickly to the banquet which the queen had prepared.

Esther 7:2
And the king said to her again the second day, after he was warm with wine: What is thy petition, Esther, that it may be granted thee? and what wilt thou have done: although thou ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.

Esther 6:14
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