Esther 3:9
If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.
KJV
Si tibi placet, decerne, ut pereat, et decem millia talentorum appendam arcariis gazæ tuæ.
Vulgate
εἰ δοκεῖ τῷ βασιλεῖ, δογματισάτω ἀπολέσαι αὐτούς, κἀγὼ διαγράψω εἰς τὸ γαζοφυλάκιον τοῦ βασιλέως ἀργυρίου τάλαντα μύρια.
LXX
If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.
ASV
אִם עַל הַ/מֶּ֣לֶךְ ט֔וֹב יִכָּתֵ֖ב לְ/אַבְּדָ֑/ם וַ/עֲשֶׂ֨רֶת אֲלָפִ֜ים כִּכַּר כֶּ֗סֶף אֶשְׁקוֹל֙ עַל יְדֵי֙ עֹשֵׂ֣י הַ/מְּלָאכָ֔ה לְ/הָבִ֖יא אֶל גִּנְזֵ֥י הַ/מֶּֽלֶךְ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
17 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Esth 1:19 — If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasu
- Esth 2:4 — And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
- Esth 7:4 — For we are sold, 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, although the enemy could not countervail the kin
- Jer 32:9 — And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.