Esther 4:7-14

⁷and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.

⁸Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.

⁹So Hathach went back and relayed Mordecai’s response to Esther.

¹⁰Then Esther spoke to Hathach and instructed him to tell Mordecai,

¹¹“All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned — that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”

¹²When Esther’s words were relayed to Mordecai,

¹³he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.

¹⁴For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

— Esther 4:7-14

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Cross References for Esther 4:7-14

• Genesis 45:4-8
• 1 Samuel 12:22
• Isaiah 54:17
• Deuteronomy 32:36
• Acts 7:20-25
• Jeremiah 30:11
• Matthew 16:18
• Ezra 9:9
• Jeremiah 46:28
• Esther 2:15

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