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seen in allowing time for Esther and Mordecai to lay plans for the protection of their people. Soon Mordecai heard of this decree. There was great lamentation on the part of all the Jews in Shushan and throughout the land. Putting on sackcloth, Mordecai sat without the King's gate. This circumstance was reported to Esther. Soon Mordecai was able to inform her of the whole state of the case. He sent her a copy of the decree, that she might see that the intention was to destroy her people from off the face of the earth, and he urged her to go unto the King and make supplication on their behalf. At the first she excused herself, knowing well that whoever came unto the King in the inner court, who was not summoned by him, should be put to death, except the King might possibly hold out the golden sceptre. She feared to hazard her life even in this noble cause; but Mordecai assured her that her life would be forfeited with the lives of her people if the decree was executed.