13. he sent back this reply, “Don't think that you will escape being killed with the rest of the Jews, just because you live in the king's palace.
14. If you don't speak up now, we will somehow get help, but you and your family will be killed. It could be that you were made queen for a time like this!”
15. Esther sent a message to Mordecai, saying,
16. “Bring together all the Jews in Susa and tell them to go without eating for my sake! Don't eat or drink for three days and nights. My servant girls and I will do the same. Then I will go in to see the king, even if it means I must die.”
17. Mordecai did everything Esther told him to do.