1When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Dan 9:32 Sam 1:112 Sam 13:19Ezek 27:30-31Job 42:6Acts 14:14Mic 1:8Rev 18:17-19Zeph 1:14Esth 4:3
2And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. Many Bible Versions Ask AI
3And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 22:12Dan 9:3Esth 3:12Esth 4:16Isa 22:4Isa 37:1-3Isa 58:51 Sam 4:13-14Matt 13:42Matt 22:13
4So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 77:21 Sam 8:152 Kgs 9:32Esth 1:12Gen 37:35Isa 56:3Jer 31:15Acts 8:27
5Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king’s chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Cor 12:26Rom 12:15Esth 1:10Heb 4:15Phil 2:4Esth 1:12
6So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king’s gate. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 4:3Esth 7:2
7And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 3:2-15
8Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 10:4Job 9:151 Tim 6:13Esth 2:20Esth 3:14-15Acts 12:20Esth 7:3-4Esth 8:6Neh 2:3-5Prov 16:14-15
9And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai. Many Bible Versions Ask AI
10Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai; Many Bible Versions Ask AI
11All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 5:1-2Dan 2:9Esth 8:4Esth 2:14Esth 1:19Esth 6:41 Pet 3:7
12And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words. Many Bible Versions Ask AI
13Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 24:10-12John 12:25Phil 2:30Heb 12:3
14For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 45:4-81 Sam 12:22Deut 32:36Isa 54:17Jer 30:11Matt 16:18Acts 7:20-25Ezra 9:9Jer 46:28Esth 2:15
15Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer, Many Bible Versions Ask AI
16Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 20:242 Chr 20:3Joel 2:12-17Luke 9:24Gen 18:192 Sam 10:12Gen 43:14Jonah 3:4-9Josh 24:15Esth 5:1
17So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him. Many Bible Versions Ask AI