Esther 4:1
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| Overview - Esther 4 | |
| 1 | The great mourning of Mordecai and the Jews. |
| 4 | Esther, understanding it, sends to Mordecai, who shews the cause, and advises her to undertake the suit. |
| 10 | She excusing herself, is threatened by Mordecai. |
| 15 | She appointing a fast, undertakes the suit. |
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Esther 4:1 (King James Version)
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
- all that
- 3:8-13
- rent
- 2 Samuel 1:11 ; Job 1:20 ; Jonah 3:4-9 ; Acts 14:14
- with ashes
- 3 ; Joshua 7:6 ; 2 Samuel 13:19 ; Job 2:8 ; 42:6 Isaiah 58:5 ; Ezekiel 27:30 ; Daniel 9:3
- Jonah 3:6 ; Matthew 11:21
- and cried
- Mordecai gave every demonstration of the most poignant grief. Nor did he hide this from the city; and the Greek says that he uttered these words aloud: [Airetai ethnos meden edikekos,] "A people is going to be destroyed who have done no evil."
- Genesis 27:34 ; Isaiah 15:4 ; 22:4 Ezekiel 21:6 ; 27:31 Micah 1:8 ; Zephaniah 1:14
- Revelation 18:17-19