translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EST

label: NET study note

text: The passive verb (“have been sold”) is noncommittal and nonaccusatory with regard to the king’s role in the decision to annihilate the Jews.


text: There is great irony here in that the man who set out to destroy all the Jews now finds himself begging for his own life from a Jew.


text: Cf. 1:10 , where Harbona is one of the seven eunuchs sent by the king to summon Queen Vashti to his banquet.