Esther 4:9

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Hathach returned and reported Mordecai’s message to Esther.

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  • Esth 4:10-13
    4 verses
    91%

    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,

    13 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.’

  • Esth 4:4-8
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    89%

    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.

  • Esth 4:15
    81%

    15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

  • Esth 4:17
    80%

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

  • Esth 2:22
    79%

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

  • Esth 8:1-5
    5 verses
    78%

    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.'

  • Esth 2:10-11
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    76%

    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 6:14
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    14 While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried Haman away to the banquet Esther had prepared.

  • Esth 5:4-5
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    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 2:19-20
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    75%

    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 2:7-8
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    75%

    7 Mordecai was the guardian of Hadassah, also known as Esther, the daughter of his uncle, because she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was beautiful in form and appearance. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her in as his own daughter.

    8 When the king’s command and decree were heard, and many young women were gathered to the citadel of Susa under the custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken to the king’s palace and placed under the custody of Hegai, who was in charge of the women.

  • Esth 9:29
    74%

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

  • Esth 9:20
    74%

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

  • Esth 3:3-4
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    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 6:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 The king asked, "Who is in the courtyard?" Now Haman had just entered the outer courtyard of the king’s palace to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.

    5 The king’s servants said to him, "Haman is standing in the courtyard." The king said, "Let him come in."

  • Esth 2:15
    73%

    15 When it was Esther’s turn—the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai who had adopted her as his own daughter—to go to the king, she did not request anything except what Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, recommended. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her.

  • Esth 8:7
    73%

    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 6:12
    73%

    12 Afterward, Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered in shame.

  • 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 7:1
    72%

    1 The king and Haman came to drink with Queen Esther.

  • Esth 7:8
    72%

    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 4:2
    72%

    2 He went as far as the king’s gate, but no one was allowed to enter the king's gate wearing sackcloth.

  • Esth 9:31-32
    2 verses
    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.

    32 And the command of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim, and it was written in the book.

  • Esth 6:2
    71%

    2 It was found written what Mordecai had reported about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

  • Esth 9:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    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 7:6
    71%

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

  • 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 9:4
    71%

    4 For Mordecai was powerful in the king's palace, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces, as he became greater and greater.

  • Esth 9:12
    70%

    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.”

  • Esth 5:7
    70%

    7 Esther answered, "This is my petition and my request:

  • Esth 5:12
    70%

    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."