Est 7:1-4 | ESV | STEP | So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther .

Esther 7:1-4

1 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, ^a“What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? ^bEven to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.” 3 Then Queen Esther answered, ^c“If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. 4 ^dFor we have been sold, I and my people, ^eto be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”