Esther 4:13

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.

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  • Prov 24:10-12 : 10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. 11 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; 12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
  • John 12:25 : 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
  • Phil 2:30 : 30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
  • Heb 12:3 : 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
  • Matt 16:24-25 : 24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

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  • Esth 4:14-17
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    14For if thou altogether holdt thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be dtroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

    15Then ther bade them return Mordecai this answer,

    16Go, gather together all the Jews that are prent in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

    17So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that ther had commanded him.

  • Esth 4:4-12
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    4So ther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.

    5Then called ther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.

    6So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate.

    7And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuri for the Jews, to dtroy them.

    8Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to dtroy them, to shew it unto ther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make requt before him for her people.

    9And Hatach came and told ther the words of Mordecai.

    10Again ther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;

    11All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinc, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king the thirty days.

    12And they told to Mordecai ther's words.

  • Esth 7:5-8
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    5Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto ther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst prume in his heart to do so?

    6And ther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

    7And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make requt for his life to ther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

    8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon ther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

  • Esth 8:1-7
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    1On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto ther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for ther had told what he was unto her.

    2And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And ther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

    3And ther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and bought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

    4Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward ther. So ther arose, and stood before the king,

    5And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his ey, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to dtroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinc:

    6For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the dtruction of my kindred?

    7Then the king Ahasuerus said unto ther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given ther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.

  • Esth 2:10-11
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    10ther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.

    11And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how ther did, and what should become of her.

  • 29Then ther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.

  • Esth 2:19-20
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    19And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.

    20ther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for ther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.

  • Esth 5:4-5
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    4And ther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.

    5Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as ther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that ther had prepared.

  • Esth 3:3-4
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    3Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgrst thou the king's commandment?

    4Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.

  • 22And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto ther the queen; and ther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.

  • Esth 9:25-26
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    25But when ther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

    26Wherefore they called the days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,

  • 6And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to dtroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

  • 10Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.

  • Esth 9:12-13
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    12And the king said unto ther the queen, The Jews have slain and dtroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rt of the king's provinc? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy requt further? and it shall be done.

    13Then said ther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

  • 14And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that ther had prepared.

  • 31To confirm the days of Purim in their tim appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and ther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselv and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.

  • 20And Mordecai wrote the things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinc of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,

  • Esth 5:12-13
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    12Haman said moreover, Yea, ther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.

    13Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

  • 1Now it came to pass on the third day, that ther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.

  • Esth 9:1-3
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    1Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemi of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)

    2The Jews gathered themselv together in their citi throughout all the provinc of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.

    3And all the rulers of the provinc, and the lieutenants, and the deputi, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.

  • 3For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.