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THE CONSTERNATION OF THE JEWS -- MORDECAI AND ESTHER
CHAPTER 4
_ 1. The great lamentations of the Jews (Esther 4:1)_
2. Esther's discovery (Esther 4:4)
3. Esther's helplessness (Esther 4:10)
4. M...
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ESTHER 4. THE DISMAY OF THE JEWS. MORDECAI OVERCOMES ESTHER'S
RELUCTANCE TO INTERCEDE WITH THE KING. And now the gloom spreads. At
this point, the LXX has a pathetic message from Mordecai to his niece...
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FAST FOR ME, AND NEITHER EAT NOR DRINK FOR THREE DAYS, NIGHT OR DAY.
Esther had made up her mind. She would intrude herself upon the king
and ask the salvation of her race, even if she perished. Consc...
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Esther's grief and the communications between her and Mordecai
4. _came and told it her_ Although unaware, according to the story, of
the queen's relationship to Mordecai, her attendants knew (see Es...
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D. Courage
TEXT: Esther 4:13-17
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Then Mordecai bade them return answer unto Esther, Think not with
thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the
Jews.
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For if thou alto...
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_FOR IF THOU ALTOGETHER HOLDEST THY PEACE AT THIS TIME, THEN SHALL
THERE ENLARGEMENT AND DELIVERANCE ARISE TO THE JEWS FROM ANOTHER
PLACE; BUT THOU AND THY FATHER'S HOUSE SHALL BE DESTROYED: AND WHO
K...
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MORDECAI'S APPEAL TO ESTHER TO SAVE HER COUNTRYMEN
1. When Mordecai perceived] His position at the door of the palace
(href='190 2:21'>Est 2:21) would enable him to obtain early
intelligence....
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GOD IS IN CONTROL
Book of Esther
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 4
V1 Mordecai discovered what had happened. He tore his clothes. He put
on *sackcloth and ashes and he went into the city. He cried aloud
be...
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וַ תֹּ֥אמֶר אֶסְתֵּ֖ר לְ הָשִׁ֥יב
אֶֽל ־מָרְד
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OPPORTUNITY FOR PATRIOTIC DEVOTION
Esther 4:1
It seemed as if the whole nation would suddenly be cut off to satisfy
the hatred of Haman, and Mordecai knew that he had been the cause of
the plot. Esth...
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The news of the intended slaughter reached Esther in the royal palace,
and she sent to make inquiries. Thus between the extreme need of her
people and the king she became a direct link. The custom and...
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CHAPTER IV....
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(15) Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer, (16) Go,
gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye
for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I als...
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_A TRUE HEROINE_
‘Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as
this? Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer, Go, gather
together all the Jews that are present in Shu...
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For Such a Time as This
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Last week we saw "little Hitler" Haman issue a decree to have all
the Jews in the Persian empire destroyed because Mordecai wouldn't bow
to him like all th...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 10.
The Book of Nehemiah has shewn us Judah reinstated in the land, but
deprived of the presence of God, except as to general blessing, and
unacknow...
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THEN ESTHER BADE THEM RETURN MORDECAI THIS ANSWER. Which follows, and
was sent by the messengers she sent the above to him....
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Then Esther bade [them] return Mordecai [this answer],
Ver. 15. _Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer_] A sweet
answer, and such as fully satisfied him. No man's labour can be in
vain in...
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Then Esther, overcome by this appeal, BADE THEM RETURN MORDECAI THIS
ANSWER,...
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Esther Agrees to Mordeai's Plan...
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ESTHER AGREES TO INTERCEDE
(vv. 1-17)
Mordecai of course very soon learned of this satanic plot of Haman
against Israel and he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes
in token of humiliatio...
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5-17 We are prone to shrink from services that are attended with
peril or loss. But when the cause of Christ and his people demand it,
we must take up our cross, and follow him. When Christians are
d...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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CONTENTS: Fasting among the Jews. Esther's resolution to defeat the
decree.
CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Esther, Mordecai, Haman, Hatach.
CONCLUSION: We should consider for what end God has put us in the...
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Esther 4:8. _He gave him the copy of the writing;_ for the decree, or
dogma, was exposed to the public.
Esther 4:11. _One law of his to put him to death._ This was an ancient
law of the Persian kings....
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_Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan._
THE CRISIS IN THE LIFE OF ESTHER
The spectacle presented reminds us--
I. That in neither place nor fortune has any one security again...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ESTHER 4:15.] Esther resolves to go to the king unsummoned and begs a
three days’ fast. “Though God and prayer are not here mentioned,
it is yet obviously assumed that it was before G...
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EXPOSITION
MOURNING OF MORDECAI, AND OF THE JEWS GENERALLY, ON HEARING OF THE
DECREE (Esther 4:1...
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When Mordecai perceived all that was done, he tore his clothes, he put
on sackcloth with ashes, and he went out into the midst of the city,
and he cried with a loud and bitter cry; And he even came be...