Esther 4:6

Updated Bible Version

So Hathach went forth to Mordecai to the broad place of the city, which was before the king's gate.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the King’s Gate.

Hebrew Names Version
So Hatakh went forth to Mordekhai to the broad place of the city, which was before the king's gate.

King James Version
So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate.

English Standard Version
Hathach went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king's gate,

New Century Version
So Hathach went to Mordecai, who was in the city square in front of the king's gate.

New English Translation
So Hathach went to Mordecai at the plaza of the city in front of the king's gate.

Amplified Bible
So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the [open] square of the city, which was in front of the king's gate.

New American Standard Bible
So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square, in front of the king's gate.

World English Bible
So Hathach went forth to Mordecai to the broad place of the city, which was before the king's gate.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So Hatach went foorth to Mordecai vnto the streete of the citie, which was before the Kings gate.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Hathach went out to Mordecai to the city square in front of the king's gate.

Berean Standard Bible
So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the King's Gate,

Contemporary English Version
Hathach went to Mordecai in the city square in front of the palace gate,

Complete Jewish Bible
Hatakh went out to Mordekhai in the open space in front of the King's Gate,

Darby Translation
And Hatach went forth to Mordecai, unto the public place of the city which was before the king's gate.

Easy-to-Read Version
So Hathach went out to where Mordecai was in the open place of the city in front of the king's gate.

George Lamsa Translation
So Hathan went forth to Mordecai to the streets of the city which were in front of the kings gate.

Good News Translation
Hathach went to Mordecai in the city square at the entrance of the palace.

Lexham English Bible
So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the public square of the city, which was in front of the gate of the king,

Literal Translation
And Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the city street in front of the king's gate.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Hathac wente forth to Mardocheus vnto the strete of the cite, which was before the kynges gate.

American Standard Version
So Hathach went forth to Mordecai unto the broad place of the city, which was before the king's gate.

Bible in Basic English
So Hathach went out and saw Mordecai in the open square of the town before the king's doorway.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So Hathach went foorth to Mardocheus, vnto the streete of the citie which was before the kinges gate:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Hathach went forth to Mordecai unto the broad place of the city, which was before the king's gate.

King James Version (1611)
So Hatach went forth to Mordecai, vnto the street of the citie, which was before the kings gate:

English Revised Version
So Hathach went forth to Mordecai unto the broad place of the city, which was before the king's gate.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Athac yede out, and yede to Mardochee stondynge in the street of the citee, bifor the dore of the paleis;

Webster's Bible Translation
So Hatach went forth to Mordecai, to the street of the city, which [was] before the king's gate.

New King James Version
So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square that was in front of the king's gate.

New Living Translation
So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the square in front of the palace gate.

New Life Bible
So Hathach went out to Mordecai at the king's gate in the open space of the city.

New Revised Standard
Hathach went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king's gate,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Hathach went forth unto Mordecai, - in the broadway of the city, which was before the gate of the king.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Athach going out went to Mardochai, who was standing in the street of the city, before the palace gate:

Revised Standard Version
Hathach went out to Mor'decai in the open square of the city in front of the king's gate,

Young's Literal Translation
And Hatach goeth out unto Mordecai, unto a broad place of the city, that [is] before the gate of the king,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Hathach went out to Mordecai to the city square in front of the king's gate.

Contextual Overview

⁵ Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend on her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it was. ⁶ So Hathach went forth to Mordecai to the broad place of the city, which was before the king's gate. ⁷ And Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them. ⁸ Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to charge her that she should go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people. ⁹ And Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai. ¹⁰ Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai [saying]: ¹¹ All the king's slaves, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he is to be put to death, except those to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I haven't been called to come in to the king these thirty days. ¹² And they told to Mordecai Esther's words. ¹³ Then Mordecai bade them return answer to Esther, Don't think within yourself that you shall escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. ¹⁴ For if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish: and who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the king's: Esther 4:3, Esther 7:2, Esther 9:12

Reciprocal: Proverbs 26:1 - so

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
And the man had sex with his wife Eve; and she became pregnant, and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with [the help of] Yahweh.

Genesis 4:3
And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to Yahweh.

Genesis 4:4
And Abel, he also brought of the firstborns of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Yahweh had respect to Abel and to his offering:

Genesis 4:5
but to Cain and to his offering he did not have respect. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

Genesis 4:8
And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Genesis 4:11
And now cursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand;

Genesis 4:13
And Cain said to Yahweh, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Job 5:2
For vexation kills the foolish man, And jealousy slays the silly one.

Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, says Yahweh: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Jeremiah 2:5
thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Hatach went forth to Mordecai, unto the street of the city,.... Where he was, in a public manner, expressing his grief and sorrow:

which was before the king's gate: that led to the royal palace.