“And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.”
And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after dinner, the king again said to Esther, What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be given you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled, repeating the king's repeated offer to grant Esther's petition and suggesting that the moment of her revelation is now at hand. The king's continued eagerness to grant her request combined with the intimate setting of the banquet creates the opportunity for Esther to finally make her true petition. The verse anticipates the revelation that will transform the banquet from a celebration into a scene of judgment and reversal.
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