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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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MORDECAI WENT HIS WAY.
He had waited at the gate for Esther's decision. When he heard it he
was satisfied, and went his way to have all done that she had
requested. He did not confer with her in pers...
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WENT HIS WAY. passed over: i.e. over the river Ulai, on which Shushan
is built, to the Jewish quarter, to accomplish his part of the
compact....
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_went his way_ The Targum takes advantage of the frequent though by no
means exclusive use of the original verb in the sense _to pass beyond,
transgress_, to interpret it as indicating that Mordecai t...
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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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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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וַֽ יַּעֲבֹ֖ר מָרְדֳּכָ֑י וַ יַּ֕עַשׂ
כְּ כֹ֛
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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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REFLECTIONS
READER! here is a large fund of rich things in this chapter, to call
up thy most awakened contemplation. Mordecai, in the prospect of the
destruction of his countrymen the Jews, covered hi...
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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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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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SO MORDECAI WENT HIS WAY,.... About the business he was directed to;
the word used having sometimes the signification of passing over or
transgressing, Jarchi interprets it of Mordecai's transgressing...
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So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had
commanded him.
Ver. 17. _So Mordecai went his way, and did according, &c._] As he
had put her upon a dangerous, but, as the cause st...
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Esther Agrees to Mordeai's Plan...
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So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had
commanded him. Note: It is altogether permissible for any person who
enjoys the favor of the mighty ones of this world to make use of...
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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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WENT:
_ Heb._ passed...
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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 4:17. AND MORDECAI WENT HIS WAY] _i.e._ from the place before
the court of the king, to do what the queen had commanded him to
do.—_Keil_.
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH. E...
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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...
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Esther 4:17...