Esther 4:16

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What does Esther 4:16 mean?

Esther 4:16 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Esther 4:16

• Acts 20:24

  But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

• 2 Chronicles 20:3

  And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

• Joel 2:12-17

  Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God? Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: …

• Luke 9:24

  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

• Genesis 18:19

  For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

• 2 Samuel 10:12

  Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the Lord do that which seemeth him good.

• Jonah 3:4-9

  And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: …

• Joshua 24:15

  And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

• Genesis 43:14

  And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

• Isaiah 22:12

  And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

• Esther 5:1

  Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.

• Philippians 2:30

  Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

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Context

• Esther 4:15

  Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,

• Esther 4:16

  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 also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

• Esther 4:17

  So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

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