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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Esther 4:8

Verse Esther 4:8. That she should go in unto the king] The Greek adds, "Remember the time of your low estate, and in what manner you have been nourished, and carried in my arms; and that Haman, who is next to the king, has got a decree for our destruction. Pray, therefore, to the Lord, and plead with the king, that we may be delivered from death." But there is not a word of this either in the Hebrew, Syriac, or Vulgate.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE CONSTERNATION OF THE JEWS -- MORDECAI AND ESTHER CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The great lamentations of the Jews (Esther 4:1)_ 2. Esther's discovery (Esther 4:4) 3. Esther's helplessness (Esther 4:10) 4. M...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ESTHER 4. THE DISMAY OF THE JEWS. MORDECAI OVERCOMES ESTHER'S RELUCTANCE TO INTERCEDE WITH THE KING. And now the gloom spreads. At this point, the LXX has a pathetic message from Mordecai to his niece...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Esther's grief and the communications between her and Mordecai 4. _came and told it her_ Although unaware, according to the story, of the queen's relationship to Mordecai, her attendants knew (see Es...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _to make request before him, for her people_ See Esther 2:10. It was now necessary for Esther to declare her nationality. It was only by identifying herself with the imperilled nation that their deliv...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. Crisis TEXT: Esther 4:4-9 4 And Esther's maidens and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take his sackcl...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _ALSO HE GAVE HIM THE COPY OF THE WRITING OF THE DECREE THAT WAS GIVEN AT SHUSHAN TO DESTROY THEM, TO SHEW IT UNTO ESTHER, AND TO DECLARE IT UNTO HER, AND TO CHARGE HER THAT SHE SHOULD GO IN UNTO THE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MORDECAI'S APPEAL TO ESTHER TO SAVE HER COUNTRYMEN 1. When Mordecai perceived] His position at the door of the palace (href='190 2:21'>Est 2:21) would enable him to obtain early intelligence....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 4 V1 Mordecai discovered what had happened. He tore his clothes. He put on *sackcloth and ashes and he went into the city. He cried aloud be...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אֶת ־פַּתְשֶׁ֣גֶן כְּתָֽב ־הַ֠ דָּת אֲשֶׁר

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    OPPORTUNITY FOR PATRIOTIC DEVOTION Esther 4:1 It seemed as if the whole nation would suddenly be cut off to satisfy the hatred of Haman, and Mordecai knew that he had been the cause of the plot. Esth...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The news of the intended slaughter reached Esther in the royal palace, and she sent to make inquiries. Thus between the extreme need of her people and the king she became a direct link. The custom and...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Entreat. Septuagint, "to put in a counter-petition, and entreat," &c. --- People. Septuagint add, "and country, remembering the days of thy lowly state, how thou wast fed by my hand; for Aman, the sec...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (4) So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he receiv...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    For Such a Time as This I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we saw "little Hitler" Haman issue a decree to have all the Jews in the Persian empire destroyed because Mordecai wouldn't bow to him like all th...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 10. The Book of Nehemiah has shewn us Judah reinstated in the land, but deprived of the presence of God, except as to general blessing, and unacknow...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    ALSO HE GAVE HIM THE COPY OF THE WRITING OF THE DECREE THAT WAS GIVEN AT SHUSHAN TO DESTROY THEM,.... Which had now been published in the city; by which means Mordecai had had a sight of it, and had t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew [it] unto Esther, and to declare [it] unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto t...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And of the sum of money_, &c. Namely, the ten thousand talents he had offered to procure the king's consent to their destruction. _And to charge her_, &c. Not only in his own name, to whom she had ma...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Also, he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, as it was posted in the city, to show IT UNTO ESTHER AND TO DECLARE IT UNTO HER, give her an explanat...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE MOURNING OF THE JEWS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    ESTHER AGREES TO INTERCEDE (vv. 1-17) Mordecai of course very soon learned of this satanic plot of Haman against Israel and he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes in token of humiliatio...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-17 We are prone to shrink from services that are attended with peril or loss. But when the cause of Christ and his people demand it, we must take up our cross, and follow him. When Christians are d...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TO CHARGE HER; not only in his own name, to whom she manifested a singular respect, though his relation to her was yet unknown, but also in the name of the great God....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Esther 4:8 gave H5414 (H8804) copy H6572 written H3791 decree H1881 destruction H8045 (H8687) given H5414 ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Fasting among the Jews. Esther's resolution to defeat the decree. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Esther, Mordecai, Haman, Hatach. CONCLUSION: We should consider for what end God has put us in the...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Esther 4:8. _He gave him the copy of the writing;_ for the decree, or dogma, was exposed to the public. Esther 4:11. _One law of his to put him to death._ This was an ancient law of the Persian kings....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him._ A RESOLUTE WILL In the meantime, this lesson may be drawn from his conduct--that a resolute will, when it is ex...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 4:6. THE STREET OF THE CITY] The broad open place before the palace.—_Whedon’s Commentary_. ESTHER 4:7. THE SUM OF THE MONEY] Rather a statement of the silver. The word here r...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MOURNING OF MORDECAI, AND OF THE JEWS GENERALLY, ON HEARING OF THE DECREE (Esther 4:1...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    When Mordecai perceived all that was done, he tore his clothes, he put on sackcloth with ashes, and he went out into the midst of the city, and he cried with a loud and bitter cry; And he even came be...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Timothy 6:13; 1 Timothy 6:17; Acts 12:20; Ecclesiastes 10:4;...

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