⁴ The whole assembly agreed to do this, because it seemed right to all the people.

⁵ “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if he regards me with favor^(A) and thinks it the right thing to do, and if he is pleased with me, let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.

⁴ The plan seemed right both to the king and to the whole assembly.

³⁶ All the people took note and were pleased; indeed, everything the king did pleased them.

²⁰ Now Saul’s daughter Michal^(A) was in love with David, and when they told Saul about it, he was pleased.^(B)