Rashi on the Prophets and Writings

may my life be given me that I should not be slain on the thirteenth of Adar, for you have issued an edict of massacre upon my people and my kindred.
and my people shall be given me in my request, that they should not be slain. Now if you ask, “What does it concern you?” (below 8:6): “For how can I see, etc.?”

for the adversary has no consideration for the king’s loss He does not care for the king’s loss, for if he sought your benefit, he should have said, “Sell them for slaves and bondswomen and receive the money, or keep them to be your slaves, they and their descendants.”

And King Ahasuerus said, and he said to Queen Esther Wherever it says, “And he said, and he said,” twice, it is to be expounded upon, and the midrashic interpretation of this is: Originally, he would speak to her by messenger, but now that he knew that she was of a royal family, he spoke to her personally.

was determined the evil, the hatred, and the vengeance were decided.

and Haman was falling The angel pushed him.
On the couch upon which Esther was Their custom was to sit at a meal [leaning] on their sides on couches, as is stated in the beginning of the Book (1:6): “couches of gold and silver” for those who participated in the banquet.
Will you even force Heb. הֲגַם. This is an expression of wonder. לְכְבּוֹשּׁ [denotes] to subdue with force, like (Num. 32: 22): “and the land is conquered (וְנִכְבְּשָּׁה).”

Also, behold the gallows He also committed another evil, that he prepared the gallows to hang the king’s friend, who saved the king from poison.