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Esther 4:14
“For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Esther 4:14 in the King James Version
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?Read Esther 4:14 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Esther 4
They told to Mordecai Esther's words.
Then Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, "Don't think to yourself that you will escape in the king's house any more than all the Jews.
For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,
Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.
Cross references for Esther 4:14
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- 1 Samuel 12:22
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- Deuteronomy 32:36
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- Isaiah 54:17
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- Jeremiah 30:11
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- Matthew 16:18
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- Acts 7:20-25
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- Jeremiah 46:28
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- Ezra 9:9
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- Esther 2:15
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