Quotes from Esther

10 notable lines from Unknown · c. 400 BCE

and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Mordecai to Esther, Esther 4:14 (KJV)

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

  1. and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

    Esther, Esther 4:16 (KJV)

  2. So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.

    Esther 7:10 (KJV)

  3. What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom.

    King Ahasuerus to Esther, Esther 5:3 (KJV)

  4. And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman.

    Esther unmasks Haman, Esther 7:6 (KJV)

  5. the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day:

    Esther 9:22 (KJV)

  6. But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains:

    Esther 1:12 (KJV)

  7. There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom;

    Haman to the king, Esther 3:8 (KJV)

  8. What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour?

    King Ahasuerus, Esther 6:6 (KJV)

  9. The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.

    Esther 8:16 (KJV)