1Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly.

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Daniel 9:3, Daniel 9:3, 2 Samuel 1:11, Job 42:6, 2 Samuel 13:19

2He came even before the king's gate, for no one is allowed inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

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3In every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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Isaiah 22:12, Isaiah 22:12, Isaiah 22:4, Daniel 9:3, Isaiah 58:5

4Esther's maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he did not receive it.

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Psalms 77:2, Psalms 77:2, Esther 1:12, Genesis 37:35, Isaiah 56:3

5Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.

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Hebrews 4:15, 1 Corinthians 12:26, Hebrews 4:15, 1 Corinthians 12:26, Esther 1:12

6So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king's gate.

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Esther 4:3, Esther 4:3, Esther 7:2, Esther 7:2, Esther 9:12

7Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

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Esther 3:2, Esther 3:15, Esther 3:2, Esther 3:15

8He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

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Ecclesiastes 10:4, Ecclesiastes 10:4, Job 9:15, Job 9:15, Esther 3:14

9Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

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10Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:

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11"All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days."

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Esther 8:4, Daniel 2:9, Esther 5:1, Esther 5:2, Esther 8:4

12They told to Mordecai Esther's words.

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13Then Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, "Do not think to yourself that you will escape in the king's house any more than all the Jews.

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Proverbs 24:10, Proverbs 24:12, Proverbs 24:10, Proverbs 24:12, Philippians 2:30

14For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

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Genesis 45:4, Genesis 45:8, Genesis 45:4, Genesis 45:8, 1 Samuel 12:22

15Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,

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16"Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish."

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Acts 20:24, Acts 20:24, 2 Chronicles 20:3, 2 Chronicles 20:3, Luke 9:24

17So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

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