Esther 4:1
Now when Mordecai perceiued all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackecloth and ashes, and went out into the middes of the citie, and cryed with a great crye, and a bitter.
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Genesis 37:34And Iaakob rent his clothes, and put sackecloth about his loynes, and sorowed for his sonne a long season.
2 Samuel 1:11Then Dauid tooke hold on his clothes, and rent them, and likewise al the men that were with him.
Esther 3:8Then Haman said vnto King Ahashuerosh, There is a people scattered, and dispersed among the people in all the prouinces of thy kingdome, and their lawes are diuers from all people, and they doe not obserue the Kings lawes: therefore it is not the Kings profite to suffer them.
Job 1:20Then Iob arose, and rent his garment, and shaued his head, and fel downe vpon the ground, and worshipped,
Job 42:6Therefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes.
Isaiah 22:4Therefore said I, Turne away from me: I wil weepe bitterly: labour not to comfort mee for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Matthew Henry on Esther 4:1
We left God's Isaac bound upon the altar and ready to be sacrificed, and the enemies triumphing in the prospect of it; but things here begin to work towards a deliverance, and they begin at the right end. I. The Jews' friends lay to heart the danger and lament it, ver. 1-4 . II. Matters are concerted between Mordecai and Esther for the preventing of it. 1. Esther enquires into this case, and receives a particular account of it, ver. 5-7 . 2. Mordecai urges her to intercede with the king for a revocation of the… Read the whole commentary →