Esther 4:5
King James Version
“Then called Esther for Hatach, of the king’s chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it and why it”
Context
2And came even before the king’s gate: for none enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
3And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received not.
5Then called Esther for Hatach, of the king’s chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it and why it
6So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which before the king’s gate.
7And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
8Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew unto Esther, and to declare unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.