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Ester 4
Bibelen på hverdagsdansk
Ester 4
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Mordokaj beder dronning Ester om hjælp
4 Da Mordokaj hørte om Hamans planer, flængede han i fortvivlelse sit tøj og klædte sig i sæk og aske. Derefter gik han rundt i byen og jamrede højt og hjerteskærende. 2 Da han kom hen på pladsen foran paladsets port, blev han stående dér, for det var forbudt at gå ind i paladset med sørgetøj på. 3 Ud over hele riget reagerede jøderne på samme måde: De græd og jamrede og fastede på grund af den kongelige befaling, og mange af dem klædte sig i sæk og aske.
4 Da Esters hofdamer og tjenere fortalte hende, at Mordokaj stod uden for porten klædt i sæk og aske, blev hun fortvivlet og skyndte sig at sende noget tøj ud til ham, så han kunne komme ind i paladset. Men han nægtede at tage det på. 5 Så gav Ester sin tjener Hatak besked på at gå ud til Mordokaj og finde ud af, hvad der var i vejen. 6 Hatak gik straks ud på den åbne plads foran paladsets port, 7 og Mordokaj fortalte ham om kongens befaling og om de 10.000 sække sølv, som Haman havde garanteret til rigets skatkammer, hvis han fik lov til at udrydde jøderne. 8 Mordokaj gav ham også en kopi af kongens skrivelse med dødsdommen over jøderne og bad ham vise den til Ester, så hun kunne gå i forbøn for sit folk hos kongen. 9 Hatak gik straks tilbage til Ester og fortalte hende det hele, 10 hvorefter hun sendte ham ud til Mordokaj med følgende besked:
11 „Hvordan skulle jeg kunne gå i forbøn hos kongen? Alle og enhver ved, at hvis nogen vover sig ind på kongens private område uden at være tilkaldt, er de dødsens, medmindre kongen rækker sit guldscepter frem og benåder dem. Og det er nu over en måned siden, at jeg sidst blev kaldt ind til kongen!”
12-13 Efter at Mordokaj havde fået den besked, bad han Hatak overbringe Ester følgende svar: „Du skal ikke tro, at du undslipper, bare fordi du er i kongens hus! Du kommer til at dele skæbne med dine landsmænd. 14 Hvis du ikke taler med kongen, vil der komme hjælp og redning til jøderne fra anden side, men du og dine nærmeste skal dø! Hvem ved, om du ikke netop blev dronning for at kunne gøre noget i denne alvorlige situation!”
15 Ester sendte da følgende svar tilbage til Mordokaj: 16 „Kald alle jøder i Susa sammen, så de kan bede og holde total faste for mig i tre dage, dag og nat.[a] Imens vil jeg og mine hofdamer gøre det samme. Derefter vil jeg gå ind til kongen, selvom det er forbudt. Jeg er parat til at dø, hvis det skal være!”
17 Så gik Mordokaj sin vej og gjorde, som Ester havde sagt.
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Esther 4
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Esther 4
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Mordecai Persuades Esther to Help
4 When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes,(A) put on sackcloth and ashes,(B) and went out into the city, wailing(C) loudly and bitterly. 2 But he went only as far as the king’s gate,(D) because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it. 3 In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4 When Esther’s eunuchs and female attendants came and told her about Mordecai, she was in great distress. She sent clothes for him to put on instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them. 5 Then Esther summoned Hathak, one of the king’s eunuchs assigned to attend her, and ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why.
6 So Hathak went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king’s gate. 7 Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews.(E) 8 He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict for their annihilation, which had been published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain it to her, and he told him to instruct her to go into the king’s presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people.
9 Hathak went back and reported to Esther what Mordecai had said. 10 Then she instructed him to say to Mordecai, 11 “All the king’s officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned(F) the king has but one law:(G) that they be put to death unless the king extends the gold scepter(H) to them and spares their lives. But thirty days have passed since I was called to go to the king.”
12 When Esther’s words were reported to Mordecai, 13 he sent back this answer: “Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. 14 For if you remain silent(I) at this time, relief(J) and deliverance(K) for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”(L)
15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast(M) for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”(N)
17 So Mordecai went away and carried out all of Esther’s instructions.
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