They told Esther’s words to Mordecai.
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They told Esther’s words to Mordecai.
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And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words.
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And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Est 4:12 And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words.
Est 4:12 And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words.
Ver. 12. And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words] {See Trapp on "Est 4:9"} She would have been her own messenger, but might not. The greatest are not always the happiest. The Lady Elizabeth once wished herself a merry milk maid.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this…
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time,.... And will not speak to the king in favour of the Jews, because of the danger she would be exposed to in doing it:
then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; Mordecai seemed confident of it, that by some means or another the Jews would be delivered; if not through the intercession of Esther, yet from some other quarter, or by some other hand:
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but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed; for such neglect of the people of God when in distress, want of pity to them, and not exerting herself as she might in their behalf; so that seeing she and her family must perish, it was better to perish in a good cause than in a bad one:
and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? he intimates that he believed that the providence of God had raised her to that dignity, that she might be an instrument of saving his people in the time of their distress; and this he said to encourage her to make the experiment.
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