Esther 4:13

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

he sent back this reply to her: ‘Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.’

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Then Mordecai commanded to answer ther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt cape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Then Mordecai instructed them to reply to Esther, "Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king's house more than all the Jews.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Then Mordecai{H4782} bade{H559} them return answer{H7725} unto Esther,{H635} Think{H1819} not with thyself{H5315} that thou shalt escape{H4422} in the king's{H4428} house,{H1004} more than all the Jews.{H3064}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Then Mordecai{H4782} commanded{H559}{(H8799)} to answer{H7725}{(H8687)} Esther{H635}, Think{H1819}{(H8762)} not with thyself{H5315} that thou shalt escape{H4422}{(H8736)} in the king's{H4428} house{H1004}, more than all the Jews{H3064}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Mardocheus bad saie againe vnto Hester: Thynke not to saue thine awne life, whyle thou art in ye kynges house before all Iewes:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And Mordecai saide, that they should answere Ester thus, Thinke not with thy selfe that thou shalt escape in the Kings house, more then all the Iewes.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And Mardocheus bad say againe vnto Esther: Thinke not with thy selfe that thou shalt escape in the kinges house more then all the Iewes.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Then Mordecai bade them return answer to Esther, Don't think to yourself that you shall escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and Mordecai speaketh to send back unto Esther: `Do not think in thy soul to be delivered `in' the house of the king, more than all the Jews,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Then Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, "Don't think to yourself that you will escape in the king's house any more than all the Jews.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    he said to take back this answer to Esther:“Don’t imagine that because you are part of the king’s household you will be the one Jew who will escape.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 24:10-12 : 10 If you falter in a day of trouble, your strength is small. 11 Rescue those being taken to death and hold back those stumbling toward slaughter, if you can. 12 If you say, 'We did not know about this,' won't the one who examines hearts perceive it? Won't the one who guards your soul know? He will repay everyone according to their deeds.
  • John 12:25 : 25 The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
  • Phil 2:30 : 30 because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for what was lacking in your service to me.
  • Heb 12:3 : 3 Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
  • Matt 16:24-25 : 24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. 25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Esth 4:14-17
    4 verses
    86%

    14 If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows? Perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.

    15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

    16 Go, gather all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.

    17 So Mordecai went away and did everything Esther had instructed him to do.

  • Esth 4:4-12
    9 verses
    83%

    4 When Esther’s attendants and eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent clothes for Mordecai to wear so he could remove his sackcloth, but he refused them.

    5 Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs appointed to attend her, and ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why.

    6 Hathach went out to Mordecai in the square of the city in front of the king's gate.

    7 Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasury for the destruction of the Jews.

    8 He also gave him a copy of the text of the decree issued in Susa for their destruction, so that Hathach could show it to Esther and explain it to her, urging her to go to the king, plead for mercy, and intercede for her people.

    9 Hathach returned and reported Mordecai’s message to Esther.

    10 Then Esther instructed Hathach to respond to Mordecai.

    11 ‘All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that for anyone—man or woman—who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned, there is one law: they are to be put to death unless the king extends the gold scepter, allowing them to live. But I have not been summoned to come to the king for thirty days.’

    12 When Mordecai was informed of what Esther said,

  • Esth 7:5-8
    4 verses
    75%

    5 King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is the one who has dared to do this?"

    6 Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this vile Haman." Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.

    7 The king, filled with wrath, got up from the wine banquet and went out to the palace garden. But Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he saw that the king had already decided his doom.

    8 When the king returned from the palace garden to the house of the wine banquet, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. The king exclaimed, "Will he even assault the queen in my own house?" As the words left the king’s mouth, Haman’s face was covered.

  • Esth 8:1-7
    7 verses
    75%

    1 On that day, King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came into the king’s presence because Esther had revealed how he was related to her.

    2 The king removed his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over Haman’s estate.

    3 Esther spoke again to the king, falling at his feet, weeping, and pleading with him to nullify the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the scheme he had devised against the Jews.

    4 The king extended the golden scepter to Esther, so she arose and stood before the king.

    5 She said, 'If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the matter seems right to the king, and if I am pleasing in his eyes, let a decree be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.'

    6 For how can I bear to see the disaster that will fall on my people? How can I endure the destruction of my kindred?

    7 King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, 'Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he has been hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.'

  • Esth 2:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 Esther had not revealed her people or her family background because Mordecai had commanded her not to do so.

    11 Every day, Mordecai walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.

  • Esth 9:29
    75%

    29 Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.

  • Esth 2:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19 When the virgins were gathered a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.

    20 Esther had still not revealed her family background or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her. She continued to follow Mordecai’s instructions as she had when he was raising her.

  • Esth 5:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 Esther replied, "If it pleases the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for him."

    5 The king said, "Bring Haman quickly, so we may do as Esther asks." So the king and Haman went to the banquet Esther had prepared.

  • Esth 3:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 Then the king's servants who were at the gate asked Mordecai, "Why do you transgress the king's command?"

    4 Day after day they spoke to him, but he refused to listen to them. So they reported the matter to Haman to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would stand, since he had told them that he was a Jew.

  • Esth 2:22
    73%

    22 When Mordecai learned about the plot, he informed Queen Esther, and she reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai.

  • Esth 9:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25 But when the matter came before the king, he ordered by letter that the wicked scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

    26 That is why these days were called Purim, from the word pur. Therefore, because of everything written in this letter, and because of what they had witnessed and what had happened to them,

  • Esth 3:6
    73%

    6 But he considered it beneath him to attack Mordecai alone, for they had told him about Mordecai’s people. So Haman sought to destroy all the Jews throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.

  • Esth 6:10
    72%

    10 Then the king said to Haman, "Go quickly and take the robe and the horse, as you have suggested, and do so for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have said."

  • Esth 9:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12 And the king said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa, the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? Now, what is your request? It shall be granted to you. And what is your further petition? It shall be done.”

    13 Esther replied, "If it pleases the king, let the Jews in Susa be allowed to act again tomorrow according to today's decree, and let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows."

  • Esth 6:14
    72%

    14 While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried Haman away to the banquet Esther had prepared.

  • Esth 9:31
    71%

    31 to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants regarding matters of fasting and lamentation.

  • Esth 9:20
    71%

    20 Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,

  • Esth 5:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 And Haman said, "What’s more, Queen Esther invited no one but me to accompany the king to the banquet she prepared. And I am invited again to dine with her and the king tomorrow."

    13 But all this gives me no satisfaction as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.

  • Esth 5:1
    71%

    1 On the third day, Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner courtyard of the king’s palace, facing the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, directly across from the entrance.

  • Esth 9:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s decree and command were to be carried out. On the day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to dominate them, the situation was reversed, and the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.

    2 The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to strike those who sought their harm. No one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen upon all the people.

    3 All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and those doing the king’s work supported the Jews, because fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.

  • Esth 10:3
    70%

    3 For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus. He was great among the Jews, popular with most of his people as one who sought the good of his people and spoke peace to all his descendants.