Esther 4 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

TOOLSEst 4:2and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

TOOLSEst 4:3In every province, wherever the king's mitzvah and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Yehudim, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

TOOLSEst 4:4Ester's maidens and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent clothing to clothe Mordekhai, and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he didn't receive it.

TOOLSEst 4:5Then called Ester for Hatakh, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend on her, and charged him to go to Mordekhai, to know what this was, and why it was.

TOOLSEst 4:6So Hatakh went forth to Mordekhai to the broad place of the city, which was before the king's gate.

TOOLSEst 4:7Mordekhai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Yehudim, to destroy them.

TOOLSEst 4:8Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Ester, and to declare it to her, and to charge her that she should go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

TOOLSEst 4:9Hatakh came and told Ester the words of Mordekhai.

TOOLSEst 4:10Then Ester spoke to Hatakh, and gave him a message to Mordekhai saying:

TOOLSEst 4:11All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to 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 scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.

TOOLSEst 4:12They told to Mordekhai Ester's words.

TOOLSEst 4:13Then Mordekhai bade them return answer to Ester, Don't think to yourself that you shall escape in the king's house, more than all the Yehudim.

TOOLSEst 4:14For if you altogether hold your shalom at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Yehudim from another place, but you and your father's house will perish: and who knows whether you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

TOOLSEst 4:15Then Ester bade them return answer to Mordekhai,

TOOLSEst 4:16Go, gather together all the Yehudim who are present in Shushan, and fast you 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 to the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

TOOLSEst 4:17So Mordekhai went his way, and did according to all that Ester had commanded him.