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Good News Translation

Esther 4:17

Mordecai then left and did everything that Esther had told him to do.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Esther;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Esther, the Rest of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Esther;   Esther Rabbah;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for July 5;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Mordecai went and did everything Esther had commanded him.
Hebrew Names Version
So Mordekhai went his way, and did according to all that Ester had commanded him.
King James Version
So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
English Standard Version
Mordecai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.
New Century Version
So Mordecai went away and did everything Esther had told him to do.
New English Translation
So Mordecai set out to do everything that Esther had instructed him.
Amplified Bible
So Mordecai went away and did exactly as Esther had commanded him.
New American Standard Bible
So Mordecai went away and did just as Esther had commanded him.
World English Bible
So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Ester had commaunded him.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Mordecai went away and did just as Esther had commanded him.
Berean Standard Bible
So Mordecai went and did all that Esther had instructed him.
Contemporary English Version
Mordecai did everything Esther told him to do.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then Mordekhai went his way and did everything Ester had ordered him to do.
Darby Translation
And Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Mordecai went away and did everything Esther told him to do.
George Lamsa Translation
So Mordecai went his way and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
Lexham English Bible
And Mordecai went away and he did everything that Esther commanded him.
Literal Translation
And Mordecai passed over and did according all that Esther had commanded him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Mardocheus wente his waye, & dyd all yt Hester had comaunded him.
American Standard Version
So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
Bible in Basic English
So Mordecai went away and did everything as Esther had said.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So Mardocheus went his way, and did according to al that Esther had commaunded him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
King James Version (1611)
So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So Mardochaeus went and did all that Esther commanded him.
English Revised Version
So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Mardochee yede, and dide alle thingis, whiche Hester hadde comaundid to hym.
Update Bible Version
So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
Webster's Bible Translation
So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
New King James Version
17 So Mordecai went his way and did according to all that Esther commanded him. [fn]
New Living Translation
So Mordecai went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.
New Life Bible
So Mordecai went away and did just as Esther had told him.
New Revised Standard
Mordecai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Mordecai departed, - and did according to all that Esther had charged upon him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So Mardochai went, and did all that Esther had commanded him.
Revised Standard Version
Mor'decai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.
Young's Literal Translation
And Mordecai passeth on, and doth according to all that Esther hath charged upon him.
THE MESSAGE
Mordecai left and carried out Esther's instructions.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Mordecai went away and did just as Esther had commanded him.

Contextual Overview

5 Then she called Hathach, one of the palace eunuchs appointed as her servant by the king, and told him to go to Mordecai and find out what was happening and why. 6 Hathach went to Mordecai in the city square at the entrance of the palace. 7 Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him and just how much money Haman had promised to put into the royal treasury if all the Jews were killed. 8 He gave Hathach a copy of the proclamation that had been issued in Susa, ordering the destruction of the Jews. Mordecai asked him to take it to Esther, explain the situation to her, and have her go and plead with the king and beg him to have mercy on her people. 9 Hathach did this, 10 and Esther gave him this message to take back to Mordecai: 11 "If anyone, man or woman, goes to the inner courtyard and sees the king without being summoned, that person must die. That is the law; everyone, from the king's advisers to the people in the provinces, knows that. There is only one way to get around this law: if the king holds out his gold scepter to someone, then that person's life is spared. But it has been a month since the king sent for me." 12 When Mordecai received Esther's message, 13 he sent her this warning: "Don't imagine that you are safer than any other Jew just because you are in the royal palace. 14 If you keep quiet at a time like this, help will come from heaven to the Jews, and they will be saved, but you will die and your father's family will come to an end. Yet who knows—maybe it was for a time like this that you were made queen!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

went: Heb. passed, Esther 4:17

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
Then Abel brought the first lamb born to one of his sheep, killed it, and gave the best parts of it as an offering. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,
Genesis 4:11
You are placed under a curse and can no longer farm the soil. It has soaked up your brother's blood as if it had opened its mouth to receive it when you killed him.
Genesis 5:18
When Jared was 162, he had a son, Enoch,
Genesis 5:22
After that, Enoch lived in fellowship with God for 300 years and had other children.
Genesis 11:4
They said, "Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth."
2 Samuel 18:18
During his lifetime Absalom had built a monument for himself in King's Valley, because he had no son to keep his name alive. So he named it after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom's Monument.
Psalms 49:11
Their graves are their homes forever; there they stay for all time, though they once had lands of their own.
Daniel 4:30
he said, "Look how great Babylon is! I built it as my capital city to display my power and might, my glory and majesty."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Mordecai went his way,.... About the business he was directed to; the word used having sometimes the signification of passing over or transgressing, Jarchi interprets it of Mordecai's transgressing the command, by fasting on a festival; the letter being written on the thirteenth of Nisan, Esther 3:12, the next day was the passover, on which he supposes the fast began; and the three days were, the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth of the month, and belonged to the feast of the passover and of unleavened bread; so the Targum:

and did according to all that Esther had commanded him; got the Jews together, and kept a fast three days; according to the Midrash e they were the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth of Nisan.

e Midrash Esther, fol. 94. 4.


 
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