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Esther 4:9

Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said.

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.
New American Standard Bible
So Hathach came back and reported Mordecai's words to Esther.
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 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 called Hathach from the king's servants whom the king had chosen to help her. She told him to go to Mordecai and find out what was wrong and why. 6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai at the king's gate in the open space of the city. 7 And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him. He told him just how much money Haman had promised to pay to the king's store-houses to have the Jews destroyed. 8 He also gave him one of the letters of the law that was sent out from Susa to destroy the Jews, that he might show it to Esther and let her know. And he said that she should go in to the king and beg him to show favor to her people. 9 Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said. 10 Then Esther told Hathach to say to Mordecai, 11 "All the king's servants and the people of the king's nation know that he has one law for any man or woman who comes to him in his room who has not been called: They will be put to death, unless the king holds out his special golden stick to him so that he may live. And I have not been called to come to the king for these thirty days." 12 Then Mordecai was told what Esther had said. 13 Mordecai answered, "Do not think that you in the king's special house will live any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you keep quiet at this time, help will come to the Jews from another place. But you and your father's house will be destroyed. Who knows if you have not become queen for such a time as this?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Proverbs 26:1 - so

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
But Abel brought a gift of the first-born of his flocks and of the fat parts. The Lord showed favor to Abel and his gift.
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 because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 4:13
Then Cain said to the Lord, "I am being punished more than I can take!
Genesis 4:14
See, this day You have made me go away from the land. And I will be hidden from Your face. I will run away and move from place to place. And whoever finds me will kill me."
Genesis 37:32
They sent the coat of many colors to their father. And they said, "We found this. Is it your son's coat or not?"
Psalms 9:12
For He Who punishes for the blood of another remembers them. He does not forget the cry of those who suffer.
Proverbs 28:13
It will not go well for the man who hides his sins, but he who tells his sins and turns from them will be given loving-pity.
John 8:44
The devil is your father. You are from him. You want to do the sinful things your father, the devil, wants you to do. He has been a killer from the beginning. The devil has nothing to do with the truth. There is no truth in him. It is expected of the devil to lie, for 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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