Esther 4:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 [saying]:

    11All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.

    12They told to Mordecai Esther's words.

    13Then 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.

  • Esth 4:4-8
    5 verses
    89%

    4Esther's maidens and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent clothing to clothe Mordecai, and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he didn't receive it.

    5Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend on her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it was.

    6So Hathach went forth to Mordecai to the broad place of the city, 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 Jews, to destroy them.

    8Also he 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 charge her that she should 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 bade them return answer to Mordecai,

  • Esth 4:17
    80%

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

  • Esth 2:22
    79%

    22The thing became known to Mordecai, who shown it to Esther the queen; and Esther told the king [of it] in Mordecai's name.

  • Esth 8:1-5
    5 verses
    78%

    1On that day did the king Ahasuerus give 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 please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be 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; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.

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

  • Esth 6:14
    76%

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

  • Esth 5:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4Esther said, If it seem good to the king, let the king and Haman come this day to the banquet that I have prepared for him.

    5Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, 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, then Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate.

    20Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.

  • Esth 2:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7He brought up Hadassah, who is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and 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 Shushan the palace, 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 disobey you 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 matters would stand: for he had told those who he was a Jew.

  • Esth 6:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak to the king to hang 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, was come to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

  • Esth 8:7
    73%

    7Then the 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 again 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, Make haste, and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to 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 was fallen on the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

  • Esth 4:2
    72%

    2and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

  • Esth 9:31-32
    2 verses
    71%

    31to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had ordained for themselves and for their seed, 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 chamberlains, of those who kept the threshold, who had sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.

  • Esth 9:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25but when [the matter] came before 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, after the name of 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, over against the king's house: and the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, over against the entrance of the house.

  • Esth 9:4
    71%

    4For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went forth 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 Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? and it shall be granted you: or what is your request further? and it shall be done.

  • Esth 5:7
    70%

    7Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is:

  • Esth 5:12
    70%

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