Esther 4

Treated in 3 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. 2
  • 4:1 Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; 1

American Standard Version

Where it is preached

  1. Talks to the Farmer · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Spiritual Gleaning cites Esther 4:16

    …but a time will come when the soul decides for the Lord, saying, “If I perish, I perish” (Esther 4:16 ESV). “I will go as I am to Jesus. I will not play with my buts and ifs. Since He bids me…

  2. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Or, a Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bunyan cites Esth 4.16

    … sword. Then I should think of Esther, who went to petition the king contrary to the law (Esth 4.16). I thought also of Benhadad’s servants, who went with ropes upon their heads to their en…

  3. Lectures on Revivals of Religion · Charles G. Finney

    Lecture IV. Prevailing Prayer cites Esther iv. 1

    …ordecai, when he saw his people in danger of being destroyed with a temporal destruction, Esther iv. 1, that he ‘rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst o…