¹tn Heb “to drink.”
²tn Heb “If I have found grace in your eyes.” So also in 8:5.
³sn The passive verb is noncommittal and nonaccusatory with regard to the king’s role in the decision to annihilate the Jews.
⁴tc The second occurrence of the Hebrew verb wayyo’mer (“and he said”) in the MT should probably be deleted. The repetition is unnecessary in the context and may be the result of dittography in the MT.
⁵tn Heb “has so filled his heart.”
⁶sn There is great irony here in that the man who set out to destroy all the Jews now begs for his own life from a Jew.
⁷tn Heb “for he saw that calamity was determined for him from the king.”
⁸tn Heb “falling.”
⁹tn Heb “where Esther was.” The term “lying” is added in the translation for stylistic reasons.
¹⁰sn Cf. 1:10, where Harbona is one of the seven eunuchs sent by the king to summon queen Vashti to his banquet.
¹¹tn Heb “fifty cubits.” See the note on this expression in Esth 5:14.