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New King James Version

Esther 4:17

17 So Mordecai went his way and did according to all that Esther commanded him. [fn]

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.
Good News Translation
Mordecai then left and did everything that Esther had told him to do.
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 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 Esther called Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs whom he had appointed to attend her, and she gave him a command concerning Mordecai, to learn what and why this was. 6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square that was in front of the king's gate. 7 And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries to destroy the Jews. 8 He also gave him a copy of the written decree for their destruction, which was given at Shushan, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her, and that he might command her to go in to the king to make supplication to him and plead before him for her people. 9 So Hathach returned and told Esther the words of Mordecai. 10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a command for Mordecai: 11 "All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days." 12 So they told Mordecai Esther's words. 13 And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: "Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king's palace any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

went: Heb. passed, Esther 4:17

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering,
Genesis 4:11
So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 5:18
Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Enoch.
Genesis 5:22
After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up a pillar for himself, which is in the King's Valley. For he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name. And to this day it is called Absalom's Monument.
Psalms 49:11
Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever, [fn] Their dwelling places to all generations;They call their lands after their own names.
Daniel 4:30
The king spoke, saying, "Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my 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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