Esther 4:9

9 And Hathach went [back] and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

Esther 4:9 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 4:9

And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
] Both the case of the Jews, and the cause of it, and what he would have her do at this critical juncture.

Esther 4:9 In-Context

7 and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman has promised to pay to the treasury of the king for the destruction of the Jews.

8 And he gave him a copy of the edict of the law that had been issued in Susa for their destruction to show Esther, and to inform her, and to charge her to go to the king and make supplication to him and entreat before him for her people.

9 And Hathach went [back] and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

10 And Esther spoke to Hathach and {she gave him a message for Mordecai}:

11 "All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that [if] any man or woman who goes to the king to the inner courtyard, who is not called, he has one law, to be killed, except if the king extends to him the gold scepter so that he may live. I have not been called to come to the king {for thirty days}."