Esther 4:7-14
7and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, aand the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews. 8Mordecai also gave him ba copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and command her to go to the king to beg his favor and plead with him on behalf of her people. 9And Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said. 10Then Esther spoke to Hathach and commanded him to go to Mordecai and say, 11“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside cthe inner court without being called, dthere is but one law—to be put to death, except the one eto whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”12And they told Mordecai what Esther had said. 13Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. 14For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for 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?”
Esther 7:4-6
4 fFor we have been sold, I and my people, gto be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.” 5Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared ▼▼Hebrew whose heart has filled him
to do this?” 6And Esther said, i“A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen. Proverbs 14:3
3By the mouth of a fool comes ja rod for his back, ▼▼Or In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride
lbut the lips of the wise will preserve them.
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