Esther 4:6 (LSB)

Passage

So Hathach went out to Mordecai to the city square in front of the king’s gate.

Nearby Context

Esther 4:4 Then Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, and the queen writhed in great anguish. And she sent garments to clothe Mordecai and to remove his sackcloth from upon him, but he did not accept them.

Esther 4:5 Then Esther summoned Hathach from the king’s eunuchs, whom the king had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai to know what this was and why it was.

Esther 4:6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai to the city square in front of the king’s gate.

Esther 4:7 And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of silver that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries to cause the Jews to perish.

Esther 4:8 He also gave him a copy of the written law which had been given in Susa for their destruction, in order to show Esther and to tell her and to command her to go in to the king to implore his favor and to seek him out for her people.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "hathach", "went", "mordecai", "city", "square", "front", "king", and "gate". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "hathach" 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 summoned Hathach from the king..." into verse 7's "And Mordecai told him all that had...", so "hathach" 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 "hathach" and "went" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.