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Esther 4:14

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4:14“Don’t imagine that because you are part of the king’s household you will be the one Jew16 who will escape. If you keep quiet at this time, liberation and protection for the Jews will appear17 from another source,18 while you and your father’s household perish. It may very well be19 that you have achieved royal status20 for such a time as this!”

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Esther 4:14: “For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Footnotes

  1. 16 Heb “from all the Jews”; “more than all the Jews”; “you alone of all the Jews.”
  2. 17 Heb “stand”; , , , “arise.”
  3. 18 Heb “place” (so , , ); “from another quarter.” This is probably an oblique reference to help coming from God. D. J. A. Clines disagrees; in his view a contrast between deliverance by Esther and deliverance by God is inappropriate (Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther [], 302). But Clines’ suggestion that perhaps the reference is to deliverance by Jewish officials or by armed Jewish revolt is less attractive than seeing this veiled reference as part of the literary strategy of the book, which deliberately keeps God’s providential dealings entirely in the background.
  4. 19 Heb “And who knows whether” (so ). The question is one of hope, but free of presumption. Cf. Jonah 3:9.
  5. 20 Heb “have come to the kingdom”; “to royal dignity”; “to royal position”; “have been elevated to the palace.”

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s family will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.”

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?”

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For if indeed you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and the family of your father will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to a royal position for a time such as this.”

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

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