| Horatio Hastings Weld - Bible - 1848 - 290 pages
...bade Hatach bear back this answer to Mordecai : — " Go, gather together all the Jews that are at present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither...will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law : and if I perish, I perish." CHAPTER II. - THE PREPARATION. THOSE three days of fasting, and mourning,... | |
| John Wroe - 1848 - 96 pages
...until they dwell in it, and stand for their lives, with Jesus, as queen Esther with king Ahasuerus : " Fast ye for me and neither eat nor drink three days,...go in unto the king, which is not according to the laws : t and if I perish, I perish." Esther. iv. 16. " And it was so, when the king saw Esther the... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - Prayer - 1848 - 414 pages
...at the request of many, than of one. Thus, Queen Esther seems to have reasoned: "Go!" said she ; " gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan,...I, also, and my maidens, will fast likewise : and then will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law ; and if I perish, I perish." It has... | |
| William John Dawson - 1848 - 1186 pages
...that are present in Shushau, and fast ye for me" How ? We are informed in the very next words ; — " neither eat nor drink three days, night or day : I...I go in - unto the king, which is not according to Inw : and if I perish, I perish. So Mordecai went his way, and 'did according to all that Esther had... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1849 - 440 pages
...sent to Mordecai, to say, " Go, gather together to^go to the all tne jews that are present in Shushau and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three...according to the law; and if I perish, I perish!" On the third day Esther put on her royal apparel, and presented herself in the inner court of the palace,... | |
| Edward Bather - Bible - 1850 - 358 pages
...put her life in jeopardy to save the Jews from the decree of Haman, she sent to Mordecai, saying, " Go, gather together all the Jews that are present...which is not according to the law : and if I perish, I perish1." Having committed her cause to God, she felt that she could leave it with God. " This kind,"... | |
| 1850 - 830 pages
...Mordecai this answer ; 16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are s present in Shushan, and fast1 of cattle. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, lie,...there ^oas not one dead. 31 And he called" for Mo iwent his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him. -.j CHAPTER V. JM OW it came... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - Prayer - 1851 - 396 pages
...at the request of many, than of one. Thus, Queen Esther seems to have reasoned: " Go!" said she ; " gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan,...I, also, and my maidens, will fast likewise : and then will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law; and if I perish, I perish." It has... | |
| Charles Adams - Bible - 1851 - 230 pages
...upon the altar of the public welfare. "Fast ye for me/7 she saith to Mordecai and all the Jews ; " I also and my maidens will fast likewise ; and so...according to the law ; and if I perish, I perish." Such was the spirit and temper of the beloved Esther. She determined, if need be, to sacrifice herself... | |
| David Thomas - 448 pages
...means of preserving their nation, they depend for the success of those means on the blessing of God. " Go, gather together all the Jews that are present...will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law ; and if I perish, I perish." She would use the means — but she did not trust to them ; nor to... | |
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