Esther 4:10

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

Esther 4:10 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 4:10

Again Esther spake unto Hatach
For there was no other way of corresponding and conversing but by an eunuch; the wives of kings being altogether under their watch and care:

and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;
to go unto him, and what he should say to him from her, which is as follows.

Esther 4:10 In-Context

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}."

12 And they told Mordecai the words of Esther.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "she charged him to Mordecai"