Esther 4:3

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

In every province, wherever the king's mitzvah and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Cross References

Esther 1:1

Now it happened in the days of Achashverosh (this is Achashverosh who reigned from Hoddu even to Kush, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),

Esther 3:12

Then the king's scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king's satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Achashverosh, and it was sealed with the king's ring.

Esther 4:16

*Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.*

Esther 4:2

He came even before the king's gate, for no one is allowed inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

Esther 4:4

Ester's maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordekhai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn't receive it.

Esther 9:31

to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordekhai the Jew and Ester the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

Job 2:8

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

Isaiah 22:12

In that day, the Lord, the LORD of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, *Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah 58:5

Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

Ezekiel 27:30

and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

Daniel 9:3

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Jonah 3:6

The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Matthew 13:42

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 22:13

Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'

Matthew 25:30

Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

Joshua 7:6

Yehoshua tore his clothes, and fell to the dirt on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Yisra'el; and they put dust on their heads.

1 Samuel 11:4

Then came the messengers to Gevah of Sha'ul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.