Esther 4:3

Modern King James Version

And in every province, wherever the king's command 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

And it happened in the days of Ahasuerus (this is the Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces).

Esther 3:12

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

Esther 4:16

Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, night or day. My maidservants and I will also fast in the same way. And so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law. And if I perish, I perish.

Esther 4:2

And he even came before the king's gate for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

Esther 4:4

And Esther's servant women and her eunuchs came and told her. And the queen was exceedingly grieved, and she sent clothing to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him. But he did not receive it.

Esther 9:31

in order to confirm these days of Purim in their set times, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had ordered them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed the matters of the fastings and of their cry.

Job 2:8

And he took a broken piece of pottery to scrape himself with. And he sat down among the ashes.

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly; do not hurry to comfort me because of the ruin of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah 58:5

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and a day pleasing to Jehovah?

Ezekiel 27:30

and shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall throw dust on their heads. They shall wallow themselves in the ashes.

Daniel 9:3

And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and holy desires, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

Jonah 3:6

For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne. And he laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Matthew 13:42

and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 22:13

Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:30

And throw the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Joshua 7:6

And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Jehovah until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust on their heads.

1 Samuel 11:4

Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and told the news in ears of the people. And all the people lifted up their voices and wept.