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New American Standard Bible

Esther 4:9

So Hathach came back and reported Mordecai's words to Esther.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hatach;   Readings, Select;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Hatach;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Esther;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hathach;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hatach ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ha'tach;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hathach;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Esther, Apocryphal Book of;   Hathach;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for July 8;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Hathach came and repeated Mordecai’s response to Esther.
Hebrew Names Version
Hatakh came and told Ester the words of Mordekhai.
King James Version
And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
English Standard Version
And Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said.
New Century Version
Hathach went back and reported to Esther everything Mordecai had said.
New English Translation
So Hathach returned and related Mordecai's instructions to Esther.
Amplified Bible
Hathach came back and told Esther what Mordecai had said.
World English Bible
Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So when Hatach came, he told Ester the wordes of Mordecai.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Hathach came back and told Mordecai's words to Esther.
Berean Standard Bible
So Hathach went back and relayed Mordecai's response to Esther.
Contemporary English Version
Hathach went back to Esther and told her what Mordecai had said.
Complete Jewish Bible
Hatakh returned and told Ester what Mordekhai had said.
Darby Translation
And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
Easy-to-Read Version
Hathach went back and told Esther everything Mordecai had said.
George Lamsa Translation
And Hathan came in and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
Good News Translation
Hathach did this,
Lexham English Bible
And Hathach went back and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
Literal Translation
And Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And wha Hathat came in, and tolde Hester the wordes of Mardocheus,
American Standard Version
And Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
Bible in Basic English
And Hathach came back and gave Esther an account of what Mordecai had said.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when Hathach came in, he tolde Esther the wordes of Mardocheus.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
King James Version (1611)
And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So Achrathaeus went in and told her all these words.
English Revised Version
And Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Athac yede ayen, and telde to Hester alle thingis, whiche Mardochee hadde seid.
Update Bible Version
And Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
New King James Version
So Hathach returned and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
New Living Translation
So Hathach returned to Esther with Mordecai's message.
New Life Bible
Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said.
New Revised Standard
Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Hathach came in and told Esther, the words of Mordecai.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Athach went back and told Esther all that Mardochai had said.
Revised Standard Version
And Hathach went and told Esther what Mor'decai had said.
Young's Literal Translation
And Hatach cometh in and declareth to Esther the words of Mordecai,
THE MESSAGE
Hathach came back and told Esther everything Mordecai had said. Esther talked it over with Hathach and then sent him back to Mordecai with this message: "Everyone who works for the king here, and even the people out in the provinces, knows that there is a single fate for every man or woman who approaches the king without being invited: death. The one exception is if the king extends his gold scepter; then he or she may live. And it's been thirty days now since I've been invited to come to the king."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Hathach came back and related Mordecai's words to Esther.

Contextual Overview

5 Then Esther summoned Hathach from the king's eunuchs, whom the king had appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this mourning was and why it was happening. 6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square, in front of the king's gate. 7 Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the elimination of the Jews. 8 He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict which had been issued in Susa for their annihilation, so that he might show Esther and inform her, and to order her to go in to the king to implore his favor and plead with him for her people. 9 So Hathach came back and reported Mordecai's words to Esther.10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach and ordered him to reply to Mordecai: 11 "All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that for any man or woman who comes to the king in the inner courtyard, who is not summoned, he has only one law, that he be put to death, unless the king holds out to him the golden scepter so that he may live. And I have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days." 12 And they reported Esther's words to Mordecai. 13 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, "Do not imagine that you in the king's palace can escape any more than all the other Jews. 14 "For if you keep silent at this time, liberation and rescue will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Proverbs 26:1 - so

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
Abel, on his part also brought an offering, from the firstborn of his flock and from their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering;
Genesis 4:9
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
Genesis 4:11
"Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 4:13
Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is too great to endure!
Genesis 4:14
"Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and I will be hidden from Your face, and I will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
Genesis 37:32
and they sent the multicolored tunic and brought it to their father and said, "We found this; please examine it to see whether it is your son's tunic or not."
Psalms 9:12
For He who requires blood remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the needy.
Proverbs 28:13
One who conceals his wrongdoings will not prosper, But one who confesses and abandons them will find compassion.
John 8:44
"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai. Both the case of the Jews, and the cause of it, and what he would have her do at this critical juncture.


 
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