Ester 4:4

4 Quando vieram as moças de Ester e os eunucos lho fizeram saber, a rainha muito se entristeceu; e enviou roupa para Mardoqueu, a fim de que, despindo-lhe o saco, lha vestissem; ele, porém, não a aceitou.

Ester 4:4 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 4:4

So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her,
&c.] Her maids of honour and eunuchs that attended her, which they might tell her merely as a piece of news, there being something shocking in it to tender minds; or perhaps nothing more than that Mordecai was in sackcloth; and they might have observed, by some incident or another, that there was some connection between Mordecai and Esther, and that she had a peculiar respect for him:

then was the queen exceedingly grieved;
even though she might not know the whole of the matter; but perceiving whatever it was it greatly affected Mordecai, with whom she sympathized:

and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth
from him;
that so he might appear at court, and she get better intelligence of the cause of all this:

but he received it not;
refusing to be comforted, or appear cheerful under such melancholy circumstances.

Ester 4:4 In-Context

2 e chegou até diante da porta do rei, pois ninguém vestido de saco podia entrar elas portas do rei.

3 Em todas as províncias aonde chegava a ordem do rei, e o seu decreto, havia entre os judeus grande pranto, com jejum, e choro, e lamentação; e muitos se deitavam em saco e em cinza.

4 Quando vieram as moças de Ester e os eunucos lho fizeram saber, a rainha muito se entristeceu; e enviou roupa para Mardoqueu, a fim de que, despindo-lhe o saco, lha vestissem; ele, porém, não a aceitou.

5 Então Ester mandou chamar Hataque, um dos eunucos do rei, que este havia designado para a servir, e o mandou ir ter com Mardoqueu para saber que era aquilo, e por que era.

6 Hataque, pois, saiu a ter com Mardoqueu � praça da cidade, diante da porta do rei;