Quotes about Esther
When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.
- Esther 2:19
Esther still had not revealed her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed. She obeyed Mordecai’s command, as she had done under his care.
- Esther 2:20
When Mordecai learned of the plot, he reported it to Queen Esther, and she informed the king on Mordecai’s behalf.
- Esther 2:22
After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.
- Esther 3:1
Then the royal servants at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”
- Esther 3:3
Day after day they warned him, but he would not comply. So they reported it to Haman to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, since he had told them he was a Jew.
- Esther 3:4
If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”
- Esther 3:9
So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
- Esther 3:10
But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.
- Esther 4:2
When Esther’s maidens and eunuchs came and told her about Mordecai, the queen was overcome with distress. She sent clothes for Mordecai to wear instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.
- Esther 4:4
Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs appointed to her, and she dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what was troubling him and why.
- Esther 4:5
So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the king’s gate,
- Esther 4:6