Esther 4:2

Esther chapter 4 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with scriptural context

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and he came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter within the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and he came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter within the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

Context

v.1Now when Mordecai knew 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;

v.2This passage

v.3And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.