Matthew Poole and continuators on Esther 7:4

4 For we are sold , I and my people , to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish : but if we had been sold for bond-men, and bond-women, I had held my tongue , although the enemy could not countervail the kings damage .

By the craft and cruelty of that man who offered a great sum of mony to purchase our destruction.

For we are all given up to his malice and rage, without any exception of my own person.

She useth variety of expressions to make the deeper impression upon the Kings mind.

Because that calamity had neither been irrecoverable, nor intolerable, nor yet unprofitable to the King for whose honour and service, I should willingly have submitted my self and people to any kind of bondage.

His ten thousand talents, if paid into the Kings treasury, would not repair the Kings loss in the customs and tributes which the King receives from the Jews within his dominions.

Marginal references: Ch. 3. 9.; Heb. that they should destroy, and kill, and cause to perish.