Esther 4:9

World English Bible (2000)

Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

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  • Esth 4:10-13
    4 verses
    91%

    10Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:

    11"All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days."

    12They told to Mordecai Esther's words.

    13Then 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.

  • Esth 4:4-8
    5 verses
    89%

    4Esther's maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn't receive it.

    5Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.

    6So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king's gate.

    7Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

    8He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

  • Esth 4:15
    81%

    15Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,

  • Esth 4:17
    80%

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

  • Esth 2:22
    79%

    22This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai's name.

  • Esth 8:1-5
    5 verses
    78%

    1On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews' enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

    2The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

    3Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged 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 to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.

    5She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces.

  • Esth 2:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

    11Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women's house, to find out how Esther did, and what would become of her.

  • Esth 6:14
    76%

    14While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

  • Esth 5:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4Esther said, "If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him."

    5Then the king said, "Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said." So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

  • Esth 2:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate.

    20Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him.

  • Esth 2:7-8
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    75%

    7He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

    8So it happened, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken into the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

  • Esth 9:29
    74%

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

  • Esth 9:20
    74%

    20Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,

  • Esth 3:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Then the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king's commandment?"

    4Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn't listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

  • Esth 6:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

    5The king's servants said to him, "Behold, Haman stands in the court." The king said, "Let him come in."

  • Esth 2:15
    73%

    15Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

  • Esth 8:7
    73%

    7Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, "See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.

  • Esth 6:12
    73%

    12Mordecai came back to the king's gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

  • Esth 6:10
    72%

    10Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken."

  • Esth 7:1
    72%

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

  • Esth 7:8
    72%

    8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?" As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

  • Esth 4:2
    72%

    2He came even before the king's gate, for no one is allowed inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

  • Esth 9:31-32
    2 verses
    71%

    31to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

    32The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

  • Esth 6:2
    71%

    2It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

  • Esth 9:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

    26Therefore they called these days "Purim," from the word "Pur." Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,

  • Esth 7:6
    71%

    6Esther said, "An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

  • Esth 5:1
    71%

    1Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, next to the king's house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.

  • Esth 9:4
    71%

    4For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.

  • Esth 9:12
    70%

    12The king said to Esther the queen, "The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done."

  • Esth 5:7
    70%

    7Then Esther answered and said, "My petition and my request is this.

  • Esth 5:12
    70%

    12Haman also said, "Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.