Verse | Translation | Text |
Es 5:3 | Strong Concordance | Then said [0559] the king [04428] unto her, What wilt thou, queen [04436] Esther [0635]? and what is thy request [01246]? it shall be even given [05414] thee to the half [02677] of the kingdom [04438]. |
King James | Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom. |
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom--This mode of speaking originated in the Persian custom of appropriating for the maintenance of great men, or royal favorites, one city for his bread, another for his wine, a third for his clothes, &c., so that the phrase denoted great liberality. |