Esther 4:16

“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”

Cross References (20)

  • Acts 20:24 (19)

    But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from

  • 2 Chronicles 20:3 (17)

    Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.

  • Joel 2:12–17 (13)

    “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

  • Luke 9:24 (11)

    For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

  • Genesis 18:19 (9)

    For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by d

  • Jonah 3:4–9 (5)

    On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overtu

  • 2 Samuel 10:12 (5)

    Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do what is good in His sig

  • Joshua 24:15 (5)

    But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whethe

  • Genesis 43:14 (5)

    May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me,

  • Isaiah 22:12 (3)

    On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

  • Esther 5:1 (3)

    On the third day, Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace across from the king’s quarte

  • Romans 16:4 (2)

    who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

  • Philippians 2:30 (2)

    because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.

  • Joel 1:14–15 (2)

    Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the L

  • Acts 9:9 (2)

    For three days he was without sight, and he did not eat or drink anything.

  • Acts 27:33 (1)

    Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taki

  • Acts 21:13 (1)

    Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jeru

  • 1 Samuel 19:5 (0)

    He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel.

  • Matthew 12:40 (0)

    For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and th

  • Acts 10:7 (-1)

    When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his atten