Esther 4:12

12 When Mordecai received Esther's message,

Esther 4:12 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 4:12

And they told to Mordecai Esther's, words.
] The messengers she sent to him.

Esther 4:12 In-Context

10 and Esther gave him this message to take back to Mordecai:

11 "If anyone, man or woman, goes to the inner courtyard and sees the king without being summoned, that person must die. That is the law; everyone, from the king's advisers to the people in the provinces, knows that. There is only one way to get around this law: if the king holds out his gold scepter to someone, then that person's life is spared. But it has been a month since the king sent for me."

12 When Mordecai received Esther's message,

13 he sent her this warning: "Don't imagine that you are safer than any other Jew just because you are in the royal palace.

14 If you keep quiet at a time like this, help will come from heaven to the Jews, and they will be saved, but you will die and your father's family will come to an end. Yet who knows - maybe it was for a time like this that you were made queen!"