Esther 4:3
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.
And 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.
Note many…: Heb. sackcloth and ashes were laid under many
In every province, wherever 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.
And 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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- in every province
- Esther 1:1; Esther 3:12
- great mourning
- It cannot reasonably be doubted, that the mournings, fastings, and weepings of the Jews were attended by constant prayers and supplications; though all mention of them, and of the glorious God whom they worshipped, seems to have been studiously avoided.
- 1 Samuel 4:13, 14; 1 Samuel 11:4; Isaiah 22:4, 12; Isaiah 37:1–3
- weeping
- Matthew 13:42; Matthew 22:13; Matthew 25:30
- many lay in sackcloth and ashes
- Heb. sackcloth and asheswere laid under many.
- Isaiah 58:5; Daniel 9:3