“All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.”
And if the king does not hold out his scepter, then Esther will die, establishing that her intervention on behalf of her people would require her to risk her own life, creating the dramatic and moral center of the narrative: will Esther be willing to jeopardize her own position and safety to save her people? This statement of the potential consequences of her action makes clear that interceding for the Jews would not be a simple or risk-free act but would require her to place herself in genuine danger.
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