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Esther 4:1
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Now when Mordecai knew 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; |
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| Esther 4:2 |
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and he came even before the king's gate: for
none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. |
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| Esther 4:3 |
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And 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. |
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| Esther 4:4 |
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And Esther's maidens and her chamberlains came
and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent raiment to
clothe Mordecai, and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he received it not.
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| Esther 4:5 |
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Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's
chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and charged him to go
to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it was. |
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| Esther 4:6 |
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So Hathach went forth to Mordecai unto the broad
place of the city, which was before the king's gate. |
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| Esther 4:7 |
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And Mordecai told him of all that had happened
unto him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the
king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them. |
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Also he gave him the copy of the writing of
the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show 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.
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| Esther 4:9 |
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And Hathach came and told Esther the words of
Mordecai. |
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| Esther 4:10 |
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Then Esther spake unto Hathach, and gave him
a message unto Mordecai saying: |
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| Esther 4:11 |
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All 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 for him, that
he be put to death, except those 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. |
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| Esther 4:12 |
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And they told to Mordecai Esther's words. |
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| Esther 4:13 |
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Then Mordecai bade them return answer unto Esther,
Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all
the Jews. |
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| Esther 4:14 |
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For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at
this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place,
but thou and thy father's house will perish: and who knoweth whether thou art
not come to the kingdom for such a time as this? |
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| Esther 4:15 |
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Then Esther bade them return answer unto Mordecai,
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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 in like manner; and so will I go in unto
the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. |
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| Esther 4:17 |
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So Mordecai went his way, and did according
to all that Esther had commanded him. |
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