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If it were nothing more serious than being sold into slavery, I would have kept quiet and not bothered you about it; but we are about to be destroyed--exterminated!" </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/esther/7-4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/esther/7-4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/esther/7-4.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/esther/1.htm">Esther</a> > <a href="/gntd/esther/7.htm">Chapter 7</a> > Verse 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../esther/7-3.htm" title="Esther 7:3">◄</a> Esther 7:4 <a href="../esther/7-5.htm" title="Esther 7:5">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/esther/7.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/esther/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />My people and I have been sold for slaughter. If it were nothing more serious than being sold into slavery, I would have kept quiet and not bothered you about it; but we are about to be destroyed--exterminated!" <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/esther/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/esther/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />because a reward has been promised to anyone who kills my people. Your Majesty, if we were merely going to be sold as slaves, I would not have bothered you." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/esther/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, killed, and annihilated. If we were only to be sold into slavery I would remain silent, for then our distress would not have been worth troubling the king.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/esther/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.</p><p class="hdg">we are sold.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../esther/3-9.htm">Esther 3:9</a> If it please thee, decree that they may be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents to thy treasurers.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../esther/4-7.htm">Esther 4:7,8</a> And Mardochai told him all that had happened, how Aman had promised to pay money into the king's treasures, to have the Jews destroyed. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/28-68.htm">Deuteronomy 28:68</a> The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by the way whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There shalt thou be set to sale to thy enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/22-23.htm">1 Samuel 22:23</a> Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life, seeketh thy life also, and with me thou shalt be saved.</p><p class="hdg">to be destroyed, etc.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../esther/3-13.htm">Esther 3:13</a> Were sent by the king's messengers to all provinces, to kill and destroy all the Jews, both young and old, little children, and women, in one day, that is, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is called Adar, and to make a spoil of their goods.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../esther/8-11.htm">Esther 8:11</a> And the king gave orders to them, to speak to the Jews in every city, and to command them to gather themselves together, and to stand for their lives, and to kill and destroy all their enemies with their wives and children and all their houses, and to take their spoil.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/44-22.htm">Psalm 44:22,23</a> Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. . . . </p><p class="hdg">But if we.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/37-26.htm">Genesis 37:26-28</a> And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/28-68.htm">Deuteronomy 28:68</a> The Lord shall bring thee again with ships into Egypt, by the way whereof he said to thee that thou shouldst see it no more. There shalt thou be set to sale to thy enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/9-23.htm">Joshua 9:23</a> Therefore you shall be under a curse, and your race shall always be hewers of wood, and carriers of water, into the house of my God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../nehemiah/5-5.htm">Nehemiah 5:5</a> And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joel/3-6.htm">Joel 3:6</a> And the children of Juda, and the children of Jerusalem, you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far off from their own country.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../amos/2-6.htm">Amos 2:6</a> Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.</p><p class="hdg">the enemy.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../esther/7-6.htm">Esther 7:6</a> And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being able to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../esther/3-9.htm">Esther 3:9</a> If it please thee, decree that they may be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents to thy treasurers.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/esther/7.htm">Esther Pleads for Her People</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>Then she answered: If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request. <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl">For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.</span><span class="reftext">5</span>And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things?…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/12-45.htm">Luke 12:45</a></span><br />But if that servant shall say in his heart: My Lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the men-servants and maid-servants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../esther/3-9.htm">Esther 3:9</a></span><br />If it please thee, decree that they may be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents to thy treasurers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../esther/3-13.htm">Esther 3:13</a></span><br />Were sent by the king's messengers to all provinces, to kill and destroy all the Jews, both young and old, little children, and women, in one day, that is, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is called Adar, and to make a spoil of their goods.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../esther/7-5.htm">Esther 7:5</a></span><br />And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../esther/8-6.htm">Esther 8:6</a></span><br />For how can I endure the murdering and slaughter of my people?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../esther/9-25.htm">Esther 9:25</a></span><br />And afterwards Esther went in to the king, beseeching him that his endeavors might be made void by the king's letters: and the evil that he had intended against the Jews, might return upon his own head. And so both he and his sons were hanged upon gibbets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../daniel/6-2.htm">Daniel 6:2</a></span><br />And three princes over them of whom Daniel was one: that the governors might give an account to them, and the king might have no trouble.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/esther/3-10.htm">Adversary</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-17.htm">Although</a> <a href="/acts/5-36.htm">Annihilated</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-17.htm">Annihilation</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/28-10.htm">Bondmaids</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-36.htm">Bondmen</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/28-10.htm">Bond-Men</a> <a href="/ezra/9-9.htm">Bondservants</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/28-10.htm">Bondwomen</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/28-10.htm">Bond-Women</a> <a href="/ezra/10-8.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/ezra/4-22.htm">Damage</a> <a href="/esther/4-11.htm">Death</a> <a href="/esther/4-14.htm">Destroyed</a> <a href="/esther/4-7.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/esther/4-4.htm">Distress</a> <a href="/galatians/5-10.htm">Disturbing</a> <a href="/esther/3-10.htm">Enemy</a> <a href="/nehemiah/7-67.htm">Female</a> <a href="/esther/5-2.htm">Held</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/25-1.htm">Justify</a> <a href="/esther/6-2.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-26.htm">Killed</a> <a href="/esther/7-3.htm">King's</a> <a href="/ezra/4-22.htm">Loss</a> <a href="/nehemiah/7-67.htm">Male</a> <a href="/nehemiah/7-67.htm">Men-Servants</a> <a href="/esther/4-14.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/esther/4-16.htm">Perish</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/32-23.htm">Price</a> <a href="/nehemiah/8-11.htm">Quiet</a> <a href="/esther/4-14.htm">Silent</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-26.htm">Slain</a> <a href="/ezra/6-20.htm">Slaughter</a> <a href="/nehemiah/9-36.htm">Slaves</a> <a href="/nehemiah/13-16.htm">Sold</a> <a href="/ezra/4-7.htm">Tongue</a> <a href="/nehemiah/13-18.htm">Trouble</a> <a href="/esther/4-11.htm">Women</a> <a href="/nehemiah/7-67.htm">Women-Servants</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/16-25.htm">Worthy</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/esther/7-6.htm">Adversary</a> <a href="/job/2-3.htm">Although</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-16.htm">Annihilated</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-17.htm">Annihilation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-11.htm">Bondmaids</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-14.htm">Bondmen</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-13.htm">Bond-Men</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-14.htm">Bondservants</a> <a href="/acts/2-18.htm">Bondwomen</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/28-68.htm">Bond-Women</a> <a href="/job/4-7.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/psalms/35-4.htm">Damage</a> <a href="/esther/7-10.htm">Death</a> <a href="/esther/9-6.htm">Destroyed</a> <a href="/esther/8-6.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/job/7-11.htm">Distress</a> <a href="/acts/16-20.htm">Disturbing</a> <a href="/esther/7-6.htm">Enemy</a> <a href="/job/1-3.htm">Female</a> <a href="/esther/8-4.htm">Held</a> <a href="/job/9-20.htm">Justify</a> <a href="/esther/9-28.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/esther/9-6.htm">Killed</a> <a href="/esther/7-8.htm">King's</a> <a href="/job/5-24.htm">Loss</a> <a href="/job/31-13.htm">Male</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-7.htm">Men-Servants</a> <a href="/esther/9-30.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/esther/8-11.htm">Perish</a> <a href="/job/28-13.htm">Price</a> <a href="/job/3-13.htm">Quiet</a> <a href="/job/6-17.htm">Silent</a> <a href="/esther/9-6.htm">Slain</a> <a href="/esther/9-5.htm">Slaughter</a> <a href="/job/31-13.htm">Slaves</a> <a href="/psalms/44-12.htm">Sold</a> <a href="/job/5-21.htm">Tongue</a> <a href="/job/2-10.htm">Trouble</a> <a href="/esther/8-11.htm">Women</a> <a href="/job/19-15.htm">Women-Servants</a> <a href="/job/28-18.htm">Worthy</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/esther/7-4.htm">Esther 7:4 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/esther/7-4.htm">Esther 7:4 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/esther/7-4.htm">Esther 7:4 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/esther/7-4.htm">Esther 7:4 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/esther/7-4.htm">Esther 7:4 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/esther/7-4.htm">Esther 7:4 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/esther/7-4.htm">Esther 7:4 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/esther/7-4.htm">Esther 7:4 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/esther/7-4.htm">Esther 7:4 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: and annihilated annihilation annoyance as be because been commensurate destroyed destruction distress disturbing female For had have I If justify kept killed king male men merely my no not Now only people quiet remained silent slaughter slaves sold such the to trouble we with women would<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/esther/7-4.htm">OT History: Esther 7:4 For we are sold I and my (Est Esth. 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