Esther 4:16
January 1st, 2007 by Nicholas Chorba
“Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don’t eat and don’t drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. If I perish, I perish!”
This scripture is cited here:
[…] Esther 4:16 […]
[…] A public fast is when, by the authority of the magistrate (Jonah 3:7; 2 Chronicles 20:3; Ezra 8:21), either the whole church within his dominion, or some special congregation, whom it concerns, assemble themselves together, to perform the fore-mentioned duties of humiliation; either for the removing of some public calamity threatened or already inflicted upon them, as the sword, invasion, famine, pestilence, or other fearful sickness (1 Samuel 7:5-6; Joel 2:15; 2 Chronicles 20; Jonah 3:5; Esther 4:16); or else for the obtaining of some public blessing, for the good of the church,—as to crave the assistance of his Holy Spirit, in the election and ordination of fit and able pastors, etc., or for the trial of truth, and execution of justice, in matters of difficulty and great importance, etc. (Exodus 19; Acts 1:13-14). […]