Esther 4:6 “So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the kin…”

Esther 4:6

So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the king’s gate,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king’s gate.

World English Bible

So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the city square which was before the king’s gate.

American Standard Version

So Hathach went forth to Mordecai unto the broad place of the city, which was before the king’s gate.

Geneva Bible 1599

So Hatach went foorth to Mordecai vnto the streete of the citie, which was before the Kings gate.

Darby Translation

And Hatach went forth to Mordecai, unto the public place of the city which was before the king's gate.

Young's Literal Translation

And Hatach goeth out unto Mordecai, unto a broad place of the city, that [is] before the gate of the king,

Bible in Basic English

So Hathach went out and saw Mordecai in the open square of the town before the king's doorway.

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Cross references

“So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate.”

Esther 4:3 Esther 7:2 Esther 9:12

Esther 4:3 · BSB

In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Esther 7:2 · BSB

and as they drank their wine on that second day, the king asked once more, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”

Esther 9:12 · BSB

who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It wil…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs appointed to her, and she dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what was troubling him and why.

7and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.

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