Before she understood the decree, she could not understand why her cousin Mordecai made such a spectacle of himself.ī. Esther’s maids and eunuchs came and told her: Esther, living in the isolation of the palace, had not yet been made aware of this decree. And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries to destroy the Jews.Ī. So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square that was in front of the king’s gate. Then Esther called Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs whom he had appointed to attend her, and she gave him a command concerning Mordecai, to learn what and why this was. Then she sent garments to clothe Mordecai and take his sackcloth away from him, but he would not accept them. So Esther’s maids and eunuchs came and told her, and the queen was deeply distressed. ( Esther 4:4-7) Mordecai explains the problem to Esther. ![]() There was great mourning among the Jews: Mordecai’s reaction was imitated all over the Persian Empire in public expressions of grief and horror.Ģ. This was not only because of the personal integrity of Mordecai, but also because he knew the character of the laws of the Persians - that they could not be changed once decreed ( Esther 1:19).ī. He cried out with a loud and bitter cry, but he would not change his mind and grovel at the feet of Haman to save himself or his people. He tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes: Though Mordecai was anguished at all this, we remember also that his integrity was the cause of it. ![]() And in every province where the king’s command and decree arrived, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.Ī. He went as far as the front of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. When Mordecai learned all that had happened, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. ( Esther 4:1-3) He and the rest of the Jews lament their fate.
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