Esther 4 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Esther Learns of Haman’s Plot

When Mordecai^H4782 learned^H3045 of everything^H3605 that had been done^H6213, [fn]he tore^H7167 his clothes^H899, put^H3847 on^H3847 sackcloth^H8242 and ashes^H665, and went^H3318 out^H3318 into the midst^H8432 of the city^H5892 and wailed^H2199^H2201 loudly^H1419 and bitterly^H4751.

Est 4:2

Est 4:2And he came as far as the king’s gate, for no one was to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.

Est 4:3

Est 4:3In each and every province where the command and decree of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and mourning rites; and many had sackcloth and ashes spread out as a bed.

Est 4:4

Then Esther’s^H635 attendants^H5291 and her eunuchs^H5631 came^H935 and informed^H5046 her, and the queen^H4436 was seized^H2342 by^H2342 great^H3966 fear^H2342. And she sent^H7971 garments^H899 to clothe^H3847 Mordecai^H4782 so that he would remove^H5493 his sackcloth^H8242 from him, but he did not accept^H6901 them.

Est 4:5

Est 4:5Then Esther summoned Hathach from the king’s eunuchs, whom [fn]the king had appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this mourning was and why it was happening.

Est 4:6

Est 4:6So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square, in front of the king’s gate.

Est 4:7

Est 4:7Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the elimination of the Jews.

Est 4:8

Est 4:8He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict which had been issued in Susa for their annihilation, so that he might show Esther and inform her, and to order her to go in to the king to implore his favor and plead with him for her people.

Est 4:9

So Hathach^H2047 came^H935 back and reported^H5046 Mordecai’s^H4782 words^H1697 to Esther^H635.

Est 4:10

Est 4:10Then Esther spoke to Hathach and ordered him to reply to Mordecai:

Est 4:11

Est 4:11“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that for any man or woman who comes to the king in the inner courtyard, who is not summoned, he has only one law, that he be put to death, unless the king holds out to him the golden scepter so that he may live. And I have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days.”

Est 4:12

Est 4:12And they reported Esther’s words to Mordecai.

Est 4:13

Then Mordecai^H4782 told^H559 them to reply^H7725 to Esther^H635, “Do not imagine^H1819 that you in the king’s^H4428 palace^H1004 can escape^H4422 any more^H4480 than^H4480 all^H3605 the other Jews^H3064.

Est 4:14

Est 4:14“For if you keep silent at this time, liberation and rescue will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”

Esther Plans to Intercede

Est 4:15

Est 4:15Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,

Est 4:16

Est 4:16“Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants also will fast in the same way. And then I will go in to the king, which is not in accordance with the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Est 4:17

Est 4:17So Mordecai went away and did just as Esther had commanded him.

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NASB20 Footnotes

(4:1)

Lit Mordecai

(4:5)

Lit he

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Esther Learns of Haman’s Plot

Esther Plans to Intercede

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