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Webster's Bible Translation

Esther 4:9

And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

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.
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 Life Bible
Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said.
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 called Esther for Hatach, [one] of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it [was], and why it [was]. 6 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai, to the street of the city, which [was] before the king's gate. 7 And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and of the 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 at 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 Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai. 10 Again Esther spoke to Hatach, and gave him commandment to Mordecai; 11 All the king's servants, 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 of his to put [him] to death, except him to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days. 12 And they told to Mordecai Esther's words. 13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house more than all the Jews. 14 For if thou shalt altogether hold thy peace at this time, [then] will there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house will be destroyed: and who knoweth, whether thou hast come to the kingdom for [such] a time as this?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Proverbs 26:1 - so

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect to Abel, and to his offering:
Genesis 4:9
And the LORD said to Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother's keeper?
Genesis 4:11
And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
Genesis 4:13
And Cain said to the LORD, My punishment [is] greater than I can bear.
Genesis 4:14
Behold, thou hast driven me this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it will come to pass, [that] every one that findeth me will slay me.
Genesis 37:32
And they sent the coat of [many] colors, and they brought [it] to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it [is] thy son's coat or not.
Psalms 9:12
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Proverbs 28:13
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but he who confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy.
John 8:44
Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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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