Esther 4:6 (DBY)

Passage

And Hatach went forth to Mordecai, unto the public place of the city which was before the king's gate.

Nearby Context

Esther 4:4 And Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told [it] her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him; but he received [it] not.

Esther 4:5 Then Esther called for Hatach, [one] of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to wait upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.

Esther 4:6 And Hatach went forth to Mordecai, unto the public place of the city which was before the king's gate.

Esther 4:7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and of the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.

Esther 4:8 And he gave him a copy of the writing of the decree that had been given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew [it] to Esther, and to declare [it] to her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "hatach", "went", "forth", "mordecai", "public", "place", "city", and "before". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "hatach" and "went", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "Then Esther called for Hatach one of..." into verse 7's "And Mordecai told him of all that...", so "hatach" and "went" belong inside that flow. In Esther context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "hatach" and "went" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.