Esther 4:1 - Forerunner Commentary

Esther 4:1

Esther Agrees to Help the Jews

1 When Mordecai learned all that had happened,¹ he ^atore his clothes and put on sackcloth ^band ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. He ^ccried out with a loud and bitter cry.

2 He went as far as the front of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

3 And in every province where the king’s command and decree arrived, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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Esther 4:1

One of the commentaries posited that Mordecai's distress here was in part that he himself had prompted this genocidal retaliation. But whatever the reason, it got the attention of Queen Esther. And when she sought to find out what was wrong, the messenger returned with an explanation and a plea from Mordecai to bring the king his case, the case of the people, before the king.

Excerpted from Proverbs 31 and the Wife of Christ (Part Three): Esther

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Esther Agrees to Help the Jews

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