Esther 8:3-17. Arrangements for the deliverance of the Jews

3. spake yet again before the king thus apparently taking the risk of again entering his presence unsummoned, but, under the new circumstances, free from such forebodings of evil as those which had attended her previous essay.

to put away the mischief etc. This first form of request (cp. Esther 8:5) was vague. Her anxiety is still for her people, Haman's fall not of itself securing their deliverance from danger. Mordecai, even in his access to fortune and royal favour, seems to think it safest that Esther, and not he, should make the needful appeal.

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