Esther 4:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days,  night or day. I and my female servants will also fast  in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law.  If I perish, I perish.’

Cross References

Acts 20:24

But I consider my life of no value to myself; my purpose is to finish my course  and the ministry  I received from the Lord Jesus,  to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.

2 Chronicles 20:3

Jehoshaphat was afraid, and he resolved  to seek the Lord. Then he proclaimed a fast  for all Judah,

Luke 9:24

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it.

Genesis 18:19

For I have chosen  him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. This is how the Lord will fulfil to Abraham what he promised him.’

Joshua 24:15

But if it doesn’t please you to worship the Lord, choose for yourselves today: Which will you worship #– #the gods your ancestors worshipped beyond the River Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living?  As for me and my family, we will worship the Lord.’

2 Samuel 10:12

Be strong! Let’s prove ourselves strong for our people and for the cities of our God.  May the Lord’s will be done.’  ,

Genesis 43:14

May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived.’

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of Armies called for weeping,  for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.

Esther 5:1

On the third day,  Esther dressed in her royal clothing and stood in the inner courtyard  of the palace facing it. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the royal courtroom,  facing its entrance.

Philippians 2:30

because he came close to death for the work  of Christ, risking his life to make up what was lacking in your ministry to me.

Romans 16:4

who risked their own necks for my life. Not only do I thank them, but so do all the Gentile churches.

Acts 27:33

When it was about daylight, Paul urged them all to take food, saying, ‘Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and going without food, having eaten nothing.

Acts 21:13

Then Paul replied, ‘What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.’

Acts 10:7

When the angel who spoke to him had gone, he called two of his household servants and a devout soldier, who was one of those who attended him.

Acts 9:9

He was unable to see for three days and did not eat or drink.

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish   , for three days and three nights,   so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

1 Samuel 19:5

He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine,  and the Lord brought about a great victory for all Israel.  You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason? ’

John 19:22

Pilate replied, ‘What I have written, I have written.’

Esther 4:3

There was great mourning among the Jewish people in every province where the king’s command and edict  reached. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Esther 4:15

Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

Esther 4:17

So Mordecai went and did everything Esther had commanded him.

Jeremiah 36:9

In the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month,  all the people of Jerusalem and all those coming in from Judah’s cities into Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the Lord.

Daniel 2:18

urging them to ask the God of the heavens  for mercy  concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of Babylon’s wise men.

2 Kings 7:4

If we say, “Let’s go into the city,” we will die there because the famine is in the city, but if we sit here, we will also die. So now, come on. Let’s surrender to the Arameans’ camp.  If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.’

Ezra 8:21

I proclaimed a fast  by the River Ahava,  so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us, our dependents, and all our possessions.

Esther 9:31

in order to confirm these days of Purim at their proper time just as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had established them and just as they had committed themselves and their descendants to the practices of fasting  and lamentation.