Esth.4.1

Esther 4:1

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When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

Mordecai Appeals to Esther

Esther Learns of Haman’s Plot

Cross References

Revelation 11:3

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And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

The Two Witnesses

2 Samuel 1:11

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Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:

Saul’s Death Reported to David

2 Samuel 13:19

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¶ And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

Amnon and Tamar

Esther 3:8

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¶ And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.

Haman’s Plot against the Jews

Esther 4:2

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

Mordecai Appeals to Esther

Esther Learns of Haman’s Plot

Jonah 3:5

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¶ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

The Ninevites Repent

Jonah 3:6

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For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.