³ Then Queen Esther answered and said, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

²⁶ then you shall say to them, ^(A)‘I presented my request before the king, that he would not make me return ^(B)to Jonathan’s house to die there.’ ”

⁴ So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

⁷ Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.

⁸ If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and ^[a]fulfill my request, then let the king and Haman come to the ^(A)banquet which I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.”

⁸ He also gave him ^(A)a copy of the written decree for their destruction, which was given at ^[a]Shushan, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her, and that he might command her to go in to the king to make supplication to him and plead before him for her people.

¹³ Again, he sent a third captain of fifty with his fifty men. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and ^[a]fell on his knees before Elijah, and pleaded with him, and said to him: “Man of God, please let my life and the life of these fifty servants of yours ^(A)be precious in your sight.

Ahab’s Treaty with Ben-Hadad

³¹ Then his servants said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please, let us ^(A)put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.”