Esther 4:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So Mordecai went away and did everything as Esther had said.

Additional Resources

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Esth 4:15-16
    2 verses
    84%

    15 Then Esther sent them back to Mordecai with this answer:

    16 Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.

  • Esth 4:3-13
    11 verses
    82%

    3 And in every part of the kingdom, wherever the king's word and his order came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and weeping and crying and going without food; and numbers of them were stretched on the earth covered with dust and haircloth.

    4 And Esther's women and her servants came and gave her word of it. Then great was the grief of the queen: and she sent robes for Mordecai, so that his clothing of haircloth might be taken off; but he would not have them.

    5 Then Esther sent for Hathach, one of the king's unsexed servants whom he had given her for waiting on her, and she gave him orders to go to Mordecai and see what this was and why it was.

    6 So Hathach went out and saw Mordecai in the open square of the town before the king's doorway.

    7 And Mordecai gave him an account of what had taken place, and of the amount of money which Haman had said he would put into the king's store for the destruction of the Jews.

    8 And he gave him the copy of the order which had been given out in Shushan for their destruction, ordering him to let Esther see it, and to make it clear to her; and to say to her that she was to go in to the king, requesting his mercy, and making prayer for her people.

    9 And Hathach came back and gave Esther an account of what Mordecai had said.

    10 Then Esther sent Hathach to say to Mordecai:

    11 It is common knowledge among all the king's servants and the people of every part of the kingdom, that if anyone, man or woman, comes to the king in his inner room without being sent for, there is only one law for him, that he is to be put to death; only those to whom the king's rod of gold is stretched out may keep their lives: but I have not been sent for to come before the king these thirty days.

    12 And they said these words to Mordecai.

    13 Then Mordecai sent this answer back to Esther: Do not have the idea that you in the king's house will be safe from the fate of all the Jews.

  • Esth 2:18-20
    3 verses
    78%

    18 Then the king gave a great feast for all his captains and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he gave orders through all the divisions of his kingdom for a day of rest from work, and gave wealth from his store.

    19 And when the virgins came together in the second house of the women, Mordecai took his seat in the doorway of the king's house.

    20 Esther had still said nothing of her family or her people, as Mordecai had given her orders; for Esther did what Mordecai said, as when she was living with him.

  • Esth 2:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10 Esther had not said what family or people she came from, for Mordecai had given her orders not to do so.

    11 And every day Mordecai took his walk before the square of the women's house, to see how Esther was and what would be done to her.

  • Esth 5:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 And Esther in answer said, If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the feast which I have made ready for him.

    5 Then the king said, Let Haman come quickly, so that what Esther has said may be done. So the king and Haman came to the feast which Esther had made ready.

  • Esth 2:22
    76%

    22 And Mordecai, having knowledge of their purpose, sent word of it to Esther the queen; and Esther gave the news to the king in Mordecai's name.

  • Esth 6:10
    75%

    10 Then the king said to Haman, Go quickly, and take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, who is seated at the king's doorway: see that you do everything as you have said.

  • Esth 3:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2 And all the king's servants who were in the king's house went down to the earth before Haman and gave him honour: for so the king had given orders. But Mordecai did not go down before him or give him honour.

    3 Then the king's servants who were in the king's house said to Mordecai, Why do you go against the king's order?

    4 Now when they had said this to him day after day and he gave no attention, they let Haman have news of it, to see if Mordecai's behaviour would be overlooked: for he had said to them that he was a Jew.

  • Esth 9:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    31 Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen, and in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their seed, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.

    32 The order given by Esther gave the force of law to the rules about the Purim; and it was recorded in the book.

  • Esth 8:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 That day the king gave all the family of Haman, the hater of the Jews, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had made clear what he was to her.

    2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther put Mordecai over the family of Haman.

  • Esth 9:23
    74%

    23 And the Jews gave their word to go on as they had been doing and as Mordecai had given them orders in writing;

  • Esth 9:29
    74%

    29 Then Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, sent a second letter giving the force of their authority to the order about the Purim.

  • Esth 9:20
    74%

    20 And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in every division of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, near and far,

  • Esth 8:4
    73%

    4 Then the king put out the rod of gold to Esther, and she got up before the king.

  • Esth 2:15
    73%

    15 Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And Esther was looked on kindly by all who saw her.

  • Esth 2:8
    73%

    8 So when the order made by the king was publicly given out, and a number of girls had been placed in the care of Hegai in the king's house in Shushan, Esther was taken into the king's house and put in the care of Hegai, the keeper of the women.

  • Esth 9:4
    73%

    4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and word of him went out through every part of the kingdom: for the man Mordecai became greater and greater.

  • Esth 8:7
    72%

    7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, See now, I have given Esther the family of Haman, and he has come to his death by hanging, because he made an attack on the Jews.

  • Esth 2:4
    72%

    4 And let the girl who is pleasing to the king be queen in place of Vashti. And the king was pleased with this suggestion; and he did so.

  • Esth 4:1
    72%

    1 Now when Mordecai saw what was done, pulling off his robe, he put on haircloth, with dust on his head, and went out into the middle of the town, crying out with a loud and bitter cry.

  • Esth 9:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25 But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.

    26 So these days were named Purim, after the name of Pur. And so, because of the words of this letter, and of what they had seen in connection with this business, and what had come to them,

  • Esth 6:14
    72%

    14 While they were still talking, the king's servants came to take Haman to the feast which Esther had made ready.

  • Esth 7:1
    71%

    1 So the king and Haman came to take wine with Esther the queen.

  • Esth 1:21
    71%

    21 And this suggestion seemed good to the king and the captains; and the king did as Memucan said;

  • Esth 5:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 Then Esther said in answer, My prayer and my request is this:

    8 If I have the king's approval, and if it is the king's pleasure to give me my prayer and do my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast which I will make ready for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.

  • Esth 6:12
    71%

    12 And Mordecai came back to the king's doorway. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.

  • Esth 5:1
    71%

    1 Now on the third day, Esther put on her queen's robes, and took her place in the inner room of the king's house, facing the king's house: and the king was seated on his high seat in the king's house, facing the doorway of the house.

  • Esth 8:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 So the men went out on the quick-running horses used on the king's business, wasting no time and forced on by the king's order; and the order was given out in Shushan, the king's town.

    15 And Mordecai went out from before the king, dressed in king-like robes of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold and clothing of purple and the best linen: and all the town of Shushan gave loud cries of joy.