Esther 4:3

Tree of Life Version

In each and every province where the king’s edict and law came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many put on sackcloth and ashes.

Cross References

Esther 1:1

This is what happened in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia.

Esther 3:12

The king’s scribes were summoned in the first month, on the thirteenth day, and an edict was written as Haman had commanded. Everything Haman commanded was written to the king’s provincial governors, and to the officials who were in every province, and to the officials of every people, province by province, according to its script and people by people according to its language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s ring.

Esther 4:16

“Go! Gather together all the Jews who are in Shushan and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast in the same way. Afterwards, I will go in to the king, even though it is not according to the law. So if I perish, I perish!”

Esther 4:2

He went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one could enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.

Esther 4:4

When Esther’s maids and eunuchs came and told her, the queen was greatly distressed. She sent clothes for Mordecai to put on so he would remove his sackcloth, but he refused.

Esther 9:31

to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them and just as they had established for themselves and their descendants, matters regarding their times of fasting and lamentations.

Job 2:8

He took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

Isaiah 22:12

Now in that day, Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot will call for weeping and wailing, for baldness and putting on sackcloth.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, “Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly— don’t try to comfort me about the ruin of the daughter of my people.”

Isaiah 58:5

Is this the fast I have chosen? A day for one to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and spreading out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to Adonai?

Ezekiel 27:30

They will raise their voices over you and cry bitterly. They will throw up dust on their heads. They will roll themselves in ashes.

Daniel 9:3

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

Jonah 3:6

When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.

Matthew 13:42

They will throw them into the fiery furnace; in that place will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 22:13

Then the king said to his servants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Matthew 25:30

Throw the worthless servant out, into the outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’”

Joshua 7:6

Joshua then tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of Adonai until evening, both he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust on their heads.

1 Samuel 11:4

When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and spoke these words in the hearing of the people, all the people lifted up their voice and wept.