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Es 4:4	Strong Concordance	So Esther's [0635] maids [05291] and her chamberlains [05631] came [0935] and told [05046] it her. Then was the queen [04436] exceedingly [03966] grieved [02342]; and she sent [07971] raiment [0899] to clothe [03847] Mordecai [04782], and to take away [05493] his sackcloth [08242] from him: but he received [06901] it not.
	King James	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 received it not.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Then was the queen . . . grieved; and . . . sent raiment to . . . Mordecai--Her object in doing so was either to qualify him for resuming his former office, or else, perhaps, of fitting him to come near enough to the palace to inform her of the cause of such sudden and extreme distress.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

Then was the queen . . . grieved; and . . . sent raiment to . . . Mordecai--Her object in doing so was either to qualify him for resuming his former office, or else, perhaps, of fitting him to come near enough to the palace to inform her of the cause of such sudden and extreme distress.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Esther's maids ... told it her - Esther's nationality and her relationship to Mordecai were probably by this time known to her attendants, though still concealed from the king. See Est 7:4.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
The matter was made known to Esther by her maids and eunuchs, i.e., by her attendants. The Chethiv תּבואינה does not elsewhere occur after ו consecutive, hence the substitution of the Keri תּבואנה. The object of יגּידוּ: what they told her, is evidently, from what follows, the circumstance of Mordochai's appearance in deep mourning before the gate of the palace. On receiving this information the queen fell into convulsive grief (תּתחלחל, an intensive form of חוּל, to be seized with painful grief), and sent to Mordochai raiment to put on instead of his sackcloth, evidently for the purpose of enabling him to enter the palace and give her the particulars of what had happened. But Mordochai did not accept the raiment. Est 4:5-7 Then Esther sent Hatach, one of the eunuchs whom the king had set before her, i.e., appointed to attend her, to Mordochai to learn "what this, and why this," i.e., what was the meaning and the cause of his thus going about in mourning. When Hatach came forth to him in the open place of the city before the king's gate, Mordochai told him all that had happened, and the amount of the money which Haman had promised to weigh to the king's treasures (i.e., to pay into the royal treasury) for the Jews, to destroy them, i.e., that it might be permitted him to destroy the Jews. פּרשׁה, properly a determined, accurate statement, from פּרשׁ in the sense of to determine clearly (see rem. on Lev 24:12); here, according to the context: amount, sum. This promise of Haman is here emphatically mentioned as the chief point, not so much for the purpose of raising the indignation of Esther to the highest pitch (Bertheau), as to show the resentment and eagerness with which Haman had urged the extermination of the Jews. The Chethiv יהוּדיּים is the rarer form for יהוּדים, and is repeated Est 8:1, Est 8:7,Est 8:13; Est 9:15, Est 9:18. Est 4:8 Mordochai also gave Hatach a copy of the decree published in Susa (בּשׁוּשׁן נתּן, like Est 3:15) to show it to the queen. The להּ וּלהגּיד following is more correctly drawn towards the subsequent וּלצוּות, as by Bertheau, than connected according to the accentuation with what precedes. Before this infinitive must be supplied from the context, especially from Est 4:7 : and Mordochai commissioned him or told him (Hatach): to declare unto her and to command her (Esther) to go in unto the king, to entreat him and to make request before him for her people. על בּקּשׁ, to beg, to make request for something, like Ezr 8:23, and Est 7:7. עמּהּ על, concerning her people, i.e., in this connection: for them.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

The matter was made known to Esther by her maids and eunuchs, i.e., by her attendants. The Chethiv תּבואינה does not elsewhere occur after ו consecutive, hence the substitution of the Keri תּבואנה. The object of יגּידוּ: what they told her, is evidently, from what follows, the circumstance of Mordochai's appearance in deep mourning before the gate of the palace. On receiving this information the queen fell into convulsive grief (תּתחלחל, an intensive form of חוּל, to be seized with painful grief), and sent to Mordochai raiment to put on instead of his sackcloth, evidently for the purpose of enabling him to enter the palace and give her the particulars of what had happened. But Mordochai did not accept the raiment.

Est 4:5-7

Then Esther sent Hatach, one of the eunuchs whom the king had set before her, i.e., appointed to attend her, to Mordochai to learn "what this, and why this," i.e., what was the meaning and the cause of his thus going about in mourning. When Hatach came forth to him in the open place of the city before the king's gate, Mordochai told him all that had happened, and the amount of the money which Haman had promised to weigh to the king's treasures (i.e., to pay into the royal treasury) for the Jews, to destroy them, i.e., that it might be permitted him to destroy the Jews. פּרשׁה, properly a determined, accurate statement, from פּרשׁ in the sense of to determine clearly (see rem. on Lev 24:12); here, according to the context: amount, sum. This promise of Haman is here emphatically mentioned as the chief point, not so much for the purpose of raising the indignation of Esther to the highest pitch (Bertheau), as to show the resentment and eagerness with which Haman had urged the extermination of the Jews. The Chethiv יהוּדיּים is the rarer form for יהוּדים, and is repeated Est 8:1, Est 8:7,Est 8:13; Est 9:15, Est 9:18.

Est 4:8

Mordochai also gave Hatach a copy of the decree published in Susa (בּשׁוּשׁן נתּן, like Est 3:15) to show it to the queen. The להּ וּלהגּיד following is more correctly drawn towards the subsequent וּלצוּות, as by Bertheau, than connected according to the accentuation with what precedes. Before this infinitive must be supplied from the context, especially from Est 4:7 : and Mordochai commissioned him or told him (Hatach): to declare unto her and to command her (Esther) to go in unto the king, to entreat him and to make request before him for her people. על בּקּשׁ, to beg, to make request for something, like Ezr 8:23, and Est 7:7. עמּהּ על, concerning her people, i.e., in this connection: for them.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
To clothe - That so he might be capable of returning to his former place, if not of coming to her to acquaint her with the cause of his sorrow.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Sent raiment - She supposed that he must have been spoiled of his raiment by some means; and therefore sent him clothing.

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⁴ For we are sold [04376], I and my people [05971], to be destroyed [08045], to be slain [02026], and to perish [06]. But if [0432] we had been sold [04376] for bondmen [05650] and bondwomen [08198], I had held my tongue [02790], although the enemy [06862] could not countervail [07737] the king's [04428] damage [05143].

⁷ And the king [04428] arising [06965] from the banquet [04960] of wine [03196] in his wrath [02534] went into the palace [01055] garden [01594]: and Haman [02001] stood up [05975] to make request [01245] for his life [05315] to Esther [0635] the queen [04436]; for he saw [07200] that there was evil [07451] determined [03615] against him by the king [04428].

²³ So we fasted [06684] and besought [01245] our God [0430] for this: and he was intreated [06279] of us.

⁷ And Mordecai [04782] told [05046] him of all that had happened [07136] unto him, and of the sum [06575] of the money [03701] that Haman [02001] had promised [0559] to pay [08254] to the king's [04428] treasuries [01595] for the Jews [03064], to destroy [06] them.

¹⁵ The posts [07323] went out [03318], being hastened [01765] by the king's [04428] commandment [01697], and the decree [01881] was given [05414] in Shushan [07800] the palace [01002]. And the king [04428] and Haman [02001] sat down [03427] to drink [08354]; but the city [05892] Shushan [07800] was perplexed [0943].

⁸ Also he gave [05414] him the copy [06572] of the writing [03791] of the decree [01881] that was given [05414] at Shushan [07800] to destroy [08045] them, to shew [07200] it unto Esther [0635], and to declare [05046] it unto her, and to charge [06680] her that she should go in [0935] unto the king [04428], to make supplication [02603] unto him, and to make request [01245] before [06440] him for her people [05971].

¹⁸ But the Jews [03064] that were at Shushan [07800] assembled together [06950] on the thirteenth [07969] [06240] day thereof, and on the fourteenth [0702] [06240] thereof; and on the fifteenth [02568] [06240] day of the same they rested [05118], and made [06213] it a day [03117] of feasting [04960] and gladness [08057].

¹⁵ For the Jews [03064] that were in Shushan [07800] gathered themselves together [06950] on the fourteenth [0702] [06240] day [03117] also of the month [02320] Adar [0143], and slew [02026] three [07969] hundred [03967] men [0376] at Shushan [07800]; but on the prey [0961] they laid [07971] not their hand [03027].

¹³ The copy [06572] of the writing [03791] for a commandment [01881] to be given [05414] in every province [04082] was published [01540] unto all people [05971], and that the Jews [03064] should be ready [06264] [06259] against that day [03117] to avenge [05358] themselves on their enemies [0341].

⁷ Then the king [04428] Ahasuerus [0325] said [0559] unto Esther [0635] the queen [04436] and to Mordecai [04782] the Jew [03064], Behold, I have given [05414] Esther [0635] the house [01004] of Haman [02001], and him they have hanged [08518] upon the gallows [06086], because he laid [07971] his hand [03027] upon the Jews [03064].

¹ On that day [03117] did the king [04428] Ahasuerus [0325] give [05414] the house [01004] of Haman [02001] the Jews [03064]' enemy [06887] unto Esther [0635] the queen [04436]. And Mordecai [04782] came [0935] before [06440] the king [04428]; for Esther [0635] had told [05046] what he was unto her.

¹² And they put [03240] him in ward [04929], that the mind [06310] of the LORD [03068] might be shewed [06567] them.

⁵ Then called [07121] Esther [0635] for Hatach [02047], one of the king's [04428] chamberlains [05631], whom he had appointed [05975] to attend [06440] upon her, and gave him a commandment [06680] to Mordecai [04782], to know [03045] what it was, and why it was.
⁶ So Hatach [02047] went forth [03318] to Mordecai [04782] unto the street [07339] of the city [05892], which was before [06440] the king's [04428] gate [08179].
⁷ And Mordecai [04782] told [05046] him of all that had happened [07136] unto him, and of the sum [06575] of the money [03701] that Haman [02001] had promised [0559] to pay [08254] to the king's [04428] treasuries [01595] for the Jews [03064], to destroy [06] them.