Ester 4:8

8 También le dio una copia del texto del edicto promulgado en Susa, el cual ordenaba el exterminio, para que se lo mostrara a Ester, se lo explicara, y le ordenara que se presentara ante el rey para implorar clemencia e interceder en favor de su pueblo.

Ester 4:8 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 4:8

Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was
given at Shushan to destroy them
Which had now been published in the city; by which means Mordecai had had a sight of it, and had transcribed it; see ( Esther 3:14 )

to show it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her;
what Haman intended against the people of the Jews; as the Targum adds:

and to charge her;
in his name; whose charges she had always regarded, both before and since she was queen; or in the name of God:

that she should go in unto the king to make supplication unto him, and
to make request before him for her people;
signifying there was a necessity of doing it speedily, and of urging her request with great earnestness and importunity, since it was not the life of a single person, but the lives of a body of people, and her own, that lay at stake.

Ester 4:8 In-Context

6 Así que Hatac salió a ver a Mardoqueo, que estaba en la plaza de la ciudad, frente a la puerta del rey.

7 Mardoqueo le contó todo lo que le había sucedido, mencionándole incluso la cantidad exacta de dinero que Amán había prometido pagar al tesoro real por la aniquilación de los judíos.

8 También le dio una copia del texto del edicto promulgado en Susa, el cual ordenaba el exterminio, para que se lo mostrara a Ester, se lo explicara, y le ordenara que se presentara ante el rey para implorar clemencia e interceder en favor de su pueblo.

9 Hatac regresó y le informó a Ester lo que Mardoqueo había dicho.

10 Entonces ella ordenó a Hatac que le dijera a Mardoqueo: