Esther 4:12
And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words.
Esther 4:12 in other translations
| BSB | When Esther’s words were relayed to Mordecai, |
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| WEB | They told Esther’s words to Mordecai. |
| ASV | And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words. |
| YLT | And they declare to Mordecai the words of Esther, |
| DARBY | And they told Mordecai Esther's words. |
| BBE | And they said these words to Mordecai. |
| Webster | And they told to Mordecai Esther's words. |
What does Esther 4:12 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Esther 4:5-17
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 disposed to consult their own ease or safety, rather than the public good, they should be blamed. The law was express, all knew it. It is not thus in the court of the King of kings: to the footstool of his throne of grace we…
Esther 4:12 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Esther 4:11
All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
- Esther 4:12
And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words.
- Esther 4:13
Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
Esther 4:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y dijeron á Mardochêo las palabras de Esther. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et on rapporta à Mardochée les paroles d’Esther. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und man berichtete Mordokai die Worte Esthers. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quod cum audisset Mardochæus, |