Esther 4:9-11

Living Bible

⁹ So Hathach returned to Esther with Mordecai’s message. ¹⁰ Esther told Hathach to go back and say to Mordecai, ¹¹ “All the world knows that anyone, whether man or woman, who goes into the king’s inner court without his summons is doomed to die unless the king holds out his gold scepter; and the king has not called for me to come to him in more than a month.”