3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy
sight, O king, and if it please the kinga, let my life be
given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
4 For we are asold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to
be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue,
balthough the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
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3a If I have found favor in thy sight, O King, and if it please
the King As it is in the dialog of prayer unto the Lord God our King, these humble
requests of the dialog of our prayers unto our God ought to follow this same course. We ought to live
our lives with the intent and purpose of making them to be found in favor in the sight of God, and
what we prayer for ought to be that which the Lord would find pleasing to his own mind and will in
the matter. And even though God might already know and understand that which is right and best for
us, we must understand both the need and the process for the acts of asking and petitioning our God
and King in the manner of prayer and worship. In this, that order of things in the kingdom of
Xerxes was but a type of the parallel matter of having put the thing before the Lord our God. There
is the presumption here that what both Esther and Mordecai were about was being done in such a
parallel and even prior petition and request of the Lord God Jehovah, that the Jews would be speared
and just exactly what should and could be done about it to seek the Hebrew lives to be so speared
and cared for by the hand of God through the voice of the mortal king Xerxes.
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4a
Esth. 3:9;
Esth. 4:7
b
HEB for that would not have
damaged the king's interests
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