Esther 4:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

Esther 4:2 —

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

Here we have an account of the general sorrow that there was among the Jews upon the publishing of Haman’s bloody edict against them. It was a sad time with the church. 1. Mordecai cried bitterly, rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth, Est. 4:1, 2. He not only thus vented his grief, but proclaimed it, that all might take notice of it that he was not ashamed to own himself a friend to the Jews, an…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Es 4:1-14. Mordecai and the Jews Mourn. 1-2. When Mordecai perceived all that was done--Relying on the irrevocable nature of a Persian monarch’s decree (Da 6:15), Hamman made it known as soon as the royal sanction had been obtained; and Mordecai was, doubtless, among the first to hear of it. On his own account, as well as on that of his countrymen, this astounding decree must have been indescribab…