Esther 4:13

And Mordecai bade to answer Esther: Imagine not in thy heart that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.

In Context

12And they told Mordecai Esther's words.

14For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there arise relief and deliverance to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall perish. And who knows whether thou art [not] come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

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Cross References

Proverbs 24:10[If] thou losest courage in the day of trouble, thy strength is small.

John 12:25He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.

Hebrews 12:3For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.

Matthew Henry on Esther 4:6-17

Mordecai's Application to Esther; Esther Urged to Petition the King; Esther Resolves to Petition the King. ( b. c. 510.) 5 Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was. 6 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate. 7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to… Read the whole commentary →

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