^1:5When those days¹⁵ were completed, the king then provided a seven-day¹⁶ banquet for all the people who were present¹⁷ in Susa the citadel, for those of highest standing to the most lowly.¹⁸ It was held in the court located in the garden of the royal palace.

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Footnotes

15 The Hebrew text of Esther does not indicate why this elaborate show of wealth and power was undertaken. According to the these were “the days of the wedding” (αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ γάμου, hai hēmerai tou gamou), presumably the king’s wedding. However, a number of scholars have called attention to the fact that this celebration takes place just shortly before Xerxes’ invasion of Greece. It is possible that the banquet was a rallying for the up-coming military effort. See Herodotus, Histories 7.8. There is no reason to adopt the longer reading of the here.
16 The has ἕξ (hex, “six”) instead of “seven.” Virtually all English versions follow the reading of the here, “seven.”
17 Heb “were found.”
18 Heb “from the great and unto the small.”

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the citadel, both great and small, a feast lasting for seven days in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

When these days were over, the king gave a banquet, lasting seven days, in the enclosed garden of the king’s palace, for all the people from the least to the greatest who were in the citadel of Susa.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

At the end of this time, the king held a week-long banquet in the garden courtyard of the royal palace for all the people, from the greatest to the least, who were present in the fortress of Susa.

NLTNew Living Translation

When it was all over, the king gave a banquet for all the people, from the greatest to the least, who were in the fortress of Susa. It lasted for seven days and was held in the courtyard of the palace garden.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And when those days were completed, the king gave for all the people that were present at the citadel of Susa, both great and small, a banquet in the courtyard of the king’s palace garden that lasted seven days.

KJV 1900King James Version

And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace;

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