Esther 8:6

Esther 8:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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?
• New International Version (NIV)For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?”
• New King James Version (NKJV)For how can I endure to see the evil that will come to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my countrymen?”
• New Living Translation (NLT)For how can I endure to see my people and my family slaughtered and destroyed?”

Context of Esther 8:6

4When the king held out the golden scepter to Esther, Esther rose and stood before the king. 5And she said, "If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king. For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?" 7Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he intended to lay hands on the Jews. 8But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked."

Esther 8:6 word by word

כִּ֠י אֵיכָכָ֤ה אוּכַל֙ וְֽרָאִ֔יתִי בָּרָעָ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־יִמְצָ֣א אֶת־עַמִּ֑י וְאֵֽיכָכָ֤ה אוּכַל֙ וְֽרָאִ֔יתִי בְּאָבְדַ֖ן מוֹלַדְתִּֽי׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For howאֵיכָ֫כָה'êyk 'êykâh 'êykâkâh · how?H349
• can I endureיָכֹלyâkôl yâkôl · be ableH3201
• to seeרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• the evilרָעָהra‛ râ‛âh · distress: harmH7451
• that shall comeמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• unto my peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• the destructionאׇבְדַן'obdân · destructionH13
• of my kindredמוֹלֶ֫דֶתmôledeth · relativesH4138

Cross-references for Esther 8:6

• Genesis 44:34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father."
• Jeremiah 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
• Jeremiah 9:1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
• Luke 19:41And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,
• Romans 9:2that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
• Romans 10:1Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.
• Esther 7:4For 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 been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king."
• Nehemiah 2:3I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?"

Commentaries on Esther 8:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6To see the destruction of my kindred? - She had now informed the king that she was cousin to Mordecai, and consequently a Jewess; and though her own life and that of Mordecai were no longer in danger, Haman being dead, yet the decree that had gone forth was in full force against the Jews; and if not repealed, their destruction would be inevitable.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 3-14Verses 3-14 It was time to be earnest, when the church of God was at stake. Esther, though safe herself, fell down and begged for the deliverance of her people. We read of no tears when she begged for her own life, but although she was sure of that, she wept for her people. Tears of pity and tenderness are the most Christ-like. According to the constitution of the Persian government, no law or decree could be repealed or recalled. This is so far from…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-65-6. reverse the letters devised by Haman ... to destroy the Jews--The whole conduct of Esther in this matter is characterized by great tact, and the variety of expressions by which she describes her willing submission to her royal husband, the address with which she rolls the whole infamy of the meditated massacre on Haman, and the argument she draws from the king's sanction being surreptitiously obtained, that the decree should be immediately…Read the comment

Topics related to Esther 8:6

• Ring

In the dictionaries

• Apollyon
• Esther, Book of
• Kindred

Commentaries on Esther 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings