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Esther 4:1 KJV
Esther · chapter 4 · verse 1
When Mordecai perceived 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;Esther 4:1 · King James Version
Esther 4:1 in context
1When Mordecai perceived 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;
2And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
3And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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Key words (Strong's)
- perceivedyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
- sackclothsaqproperly, a meshH8242 →
- MordecaiMordᵉkayMordecai, an IsraeliteH4782 →
- clothesbegeda coveringH899 →
- ashesʼêpherashesH665 →
- midsttâveka bisectionH8432 →
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Here we have an account of the general sorrow that there was among the Jews upon the publishing of Haman's bloody edict against them. It was a sad time with the church. 1. Mordecai cried bitterly, rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth, Est 4:1, Est 4:2.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-4