Esther 8:6 KJV — MannaFest

Esther 8:6

For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

KJV

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ASV

for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

WEB

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”

YLT

for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that doth find my people? and how do I endure when I have looked on the destruction of my kindred?'

DBT

For how shall I endure to see the evil that shall befall my people? and how shall I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

About this book

Old Testament

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Esther — A Jewish orphan becomes queen of Persia; Haman plots genocide; Mordecai and Esther intervene; deliverance comes by providence — and God's name never once appears in the book.

Author: Anonymous; some rabbinic tradition attributes to Mordecai
Date: Events c. 483–473 BC, during Xerxes I's reign (Heb. Ahasuerus); compilation 4th–5th century BC

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15 verses on the floor

Romans 9:3
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Esther 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 king’s damage.
Genesis 44:34
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
Romans 9:2–3
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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