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Esther 4:7

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and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.

KJV

And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.

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This verse in Esther 4

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

told him all that had happened

on Esther 4:7-9

The charge ends on its last words, "plead before him for her people". It is the first time the book names the Jews to her as her people. The secret of 2:10 is being called due.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

) which he desired she might be told, "that going home, the night before, in great heaviness, upon the notice of Haman's plot, he met three Jewish children coming from school, of whom he enquired what they had learned that day; one of them told him his lesson was, Prov. iii. 25, 26 , Be not afraid of sudden fear; the second told him his was, Isa. viii.

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And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The law was express, and all knew it, that whosoever came to the king uncalled should be put to death, unless he was pleased to hold out the golden sceptre to them, and it was extremely doubtful whether she should find him in so good a humour,

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּגֶּד־and he told

    vaiyaged-H5046 →370 times

  • ל֣וֹto him

    lo

  • מָרְדֳּכַ֔יMordecai

    maredokhaiH4782 →60 times

  • אֵ֖ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • קָרָ֑הוּit had happened to him

    karahuH7136 →

  • וְאֵ֣ת׀and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • פָּרָשַׁ֣ת[the] exact amount of

    parashatH6575 →

  • הַכֶּ֗סֶףthe silver

    hakesefH3701 →403 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אָמַ֤רhe had said

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • הָמָן֙Haman

    hamanH2001 →54 times

  • לִ֠שְׁקוֹלto weigh out

    lishkolH8254 →

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • גִּנְזֵ֥י[the] treasuries of

    ginzeiH1595 →

  • הַמֶּ֛לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • בַּיְּהוּדִ֖יםfor the Jews

    baiyehudiyimH3064 →75 times

  • לְאַבְּדָֽם׃to destroy them

    leabedamH6 →184 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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Where this verse is studied

About Esther

Esther Before the King, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Esther Before the King, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Esther: the study guide →Read Esther 4 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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