Esther 7:3 - Exposition

Let my life be given me , etc. First of all, I ask at the king's hands my own life, which is threatened ( Esther 4:13 ); secondly, I ask the life of my people, in whose sentence it is that I am involved. Some rhetorical skill is shown in separating the two, so as to make them correspond to the two clauses of the king's address ''What is thy petition?" and "What is thy request?"