Esther 4:14

Then shall enlargement... arise.. from another place.

Mordecai's message conveys the idea that God, in his providence, has exalted Esther and placed her near the king, in order to be the deliverer of her imperiled people. If she shall prove faithless to her high trust and shrink from the responsibility God will find some other way for their deliverance, for they have not yet accomplished their destiny, but Esther and her father's house, including Mordecai, her cousin, but father by adoption, shall be destroyed. Mordecai knew well that he was destined to death by Haman, his great enemy, and that he must die unless his wicked schemes were thwarted. He predicts that Esther will be involved in his own calamity because she did not make the effort in her power to save her race. Though she was queen, and he only. servant of the king, he speaks with all the freedom of. father.