Esther 4:8

Staten Vertaling

En hij gaf hem het afschrift der geschrevene wet, die te Susan gegeven was, om hen te verdelgen, dat hij het Esther liet zien, en haar te kennen gaf, en haar gebood, dat zij tot den koning ging, om hem te smeken, en van hem te verzoeken voor haar volk.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
en hij gaf hem een afschrift van het gebod, dat te Susan aangeslagen was om hen te verdelgen, teneinde het aan Ester te vertonen en het haar bekend te maken, en om haar aan te manen, dat zij tot den koning zou gaan, ten einde zijne gunst te smeken en ene voorbede te doen voor haar volk.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
ook gaf hij hem een afschrift van het bevelschrift hen om te brengen dat in Sjusjan uitgevaardigd was; opdat hij Ester zou inlichten, haar de zaak verhalen en haar gelasten naar den koning te gaan, ten einde hem genade te vragen en van hem gunst af te smeken voor haar volk.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the copy: Esther 3:14, Esther 3:15

to charge: Esther 2:20, 1 Timothy 6:13, 1 Timothy 6:17

to make supplication: Job 9:15, Proverbs 16:14, Proverbs 16:15, Ecclesiastes 10:4, Acts 12:20

request: Esther 7:3, Esther 7:4, Esther 8:6, Nehemiah 2:3-5, Proverbs 21:1

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 38:26 - General Ephesians 6:18 - supplication

Gill's Notes on the 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 transcribed it; see Esther 3:14

to show it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her; what Haman intended against the people of the Jews; as the Targum adds:

and to charge her; in his name; whose charges she had always regarded, both before and since she was queen; or in the name of God:

that she should go in unto the king to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people; signifying there was a necessity of doing it speedily, and of urging her request with great earnestness and importunity, since it was not the life of a single person, but the lives of a body of people, and her own, that lay at stake.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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.