Book 17 : ESTHER - Chapter 004
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And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter
into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth
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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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So 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
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Then 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
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So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city,
which was before the king's gate
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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
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 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
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And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai
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Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto
Mordecai
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All the king's servants, and the people of the king's
provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or women,
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
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And they told to Mordecai Esther's words
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Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with
thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than
all the Jews
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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 father's house shall be
destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the
kingdom for such a time as this
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Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer
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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 likewise; 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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So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther
had commanded him
Book 17 : ESTHER - Chapter 004
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