Esther 4:2
King James Version (KJV)
And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
In context
1 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
2 And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
3 And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4 So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.
Esther 4:2 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
- WEB World English Bible
- He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.
- ASV American Standard Version
- and he came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter within the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and he cometh in unto the front of the gate of the king, but none is to come in unto the gate of the king with a sackcloth-garment.
- DBY Darby Translation
- and came even before the king's gate; for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.