1 maids and eunuchs came and told her, she was deeply troubled by what she heard had happened and sent instructions to clothe Mordecai and to remove his sackcloth, but he would not consent.
5Then Esther summoned Hachratheus, the eunuch who attended her, and dispatched him to get accurate information for her from Mordecai.
7 Add Esth 3.9 So Mordecai told him what had happened and about the promise that Haman had promised the king: ten thousand talents for the royal treasury to bring about the destruction of the Jews.
8Add Esth 3.14; 8.13He also gave him a copy of what had been posted in Susa for their destruction, to show to Esther, and he told him to charge her to go in to the king and plead for his favor in behalf of the people. “Remember,” he said, “the days when you were an ordinary person, being brought up under my care, for Haman, who is second to the king, has spoken against us and demands our death. Call upon the Lord; then speak to the king in our behalf and save us from death.”
9Hachratheus went in and told her all these things.
10And Esther said to him, “Go to Mordecai and say:
11Esth 5.1, 2; Add Esth 8.4; 15.11All nations of the realm know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is no escape for that person. Only the one to whom the king stretches out the golden scepter is safe—and it is now thirty days since I myself was called to go to the king.”
12So Hachratheus delivered Esther’s entire message to Mordecai,
13and then Mordecai said to Hachratheus, “Go and say to her: Esther, do not say to yourself that you alone among all the Jews in the realm will escape alive.
14For if you take no heed at such a time as this, help and protection will come to the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows whether it was not for such a time as this that you were made queen?”
15Then Esther gave the messenger this answer to take back to Mordecai:
16Add Esth 15.6“Go and gather the Jews who are in Susa and fast on my behalf; for three days and nights do not eat or drink, and my maids and I will also go without food. After that I will go to the king, contrary to the law, even if I must die.”
17So Mordecai went away and did what Esther had told him to do.
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