strkjv@Esther:4:1
@ When
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
;
strkjv@Esther:4:2
@ And
came
even
before
the
kings
gate
: for none might
enter
into the
kings
gate
clothed
with
sackcloth
.
strkjv@Esther:4:3
@ And in every
province
,
whithersoever
the
kings
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
.
strkjv@Esther:4:4
@ So
Esthers
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.
strkjv@Esther:4:5
@ Then
called
Esther
for
Hatach
, one of the
kings
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.
strkjv@Esther:4:6
@ So
Hatach
went
forth
to
Mordecai
unto the
street
of the
city
, which was
before
the
kings
gate
.
strkjv@Esther:4:7
@ And
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
kings
treasuries
for the
Jews
, to
destroy
them.
strkjv@Esther:4:8
@ Also 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
.
strkjv@Esther:4:9
@ And
Hatach
came
and
told
Esther
the
words
of
Mordecai
.
strkjv@Esther:4:10
@ Again
Esther
spake
unto
Hatach
, and gave him
commandment
unto
Mordecai
;
strkjv@Esther:4:11
@ All the
kings
servants
, and the
people
of the
kings
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
.
strkjv@Esther:4:12
@ And they
told
to
Mordecai
Esthers
words
.
strkjv@Esther:4:13
@ Then
Mordecai
commanded
to
answer
Esther
,
Think
not with
thyself
that thou shalt
escape
in the
kings
house
, more than all the
Jews
.
strkjv@Esther:4:14
@ For 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
fathers
house
shall be
destroyed
: and who
knoweth
whether thou art
come
to the
kingdom
for such a
time
as this?
strkjv@Esther:4:15
@ Then
Esther
bade
them
return
Mordecai
this answer,
strkjv@Esther:4:16
@
Go
, 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
.
strkjv@Esther:4:17
@ So
Mordecai
went his
way
, and
did
according to all that
Esther
had
commanded
him.
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