Esther 4:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Esther’s female servants and her eunuchs came and reported the news to her, and the queen was overcome with fear.  She sent clothes for Mordecai to wear so that he would take off his sackcloth, but he did not accept them.

Cross References

Jeremiah 31:15

This is what the Lord says: A voice was heard in Ramah, a lament with bitter weeping – Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children because they are no more.

Isaiah 56:3

No foreigner who has joined himself to the  Lord should say, ‘The Lord will exclude me from his people,’ and the eunuch should not say, ‘Look, I am a dried-up tree.’

Esther 1:12

But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command that was delivered by his eunuchs. The king became furious and his anger burned within him.

2 Kings 9:32

He looked up towards the window and said, ‘Who is on my side? Who? ’ Two or three eunuchs  looked down at him,

1 Samuel 8:15

He can take a tenth of your grain and your vineyards and give them to his officials and servants.

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. ‘No,’ he said. ‘I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.’ And his father wept for him.

Acts 8:27

So he got up and went. There was an Ethiopian man, a eunuch  and high official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to worship in Jerusalem

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 4:5

Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs who attended her, and dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what he was doing and why.