838 B
838 B
pleaded with
"begged"
to put an end to the evil plan of Haman the Agagite
"Put an end to" here is an idiom meaning to stop something. AT: "to stop the evil plan of Haman the Agagite" or "to prevent the evil things from happening that Haman the Agagite had planned" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)
the Agagite
See how you translated this in Esther 3:1
scheme that he had devised
"the plot that he had invented" or "the plot that Haman invented"
the king held out the golden scepter to Esther
He did this to show that he was pleased with her. See how you translated a similar phrase in Esther 5:2