John Gill, on Esth 4:8

“He gave him also a copy of the edict which was hanging up in Susan, that he should shew it to the queen, and admonish her to go in to the king, and to entreat him for her people.”

“Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them,.... Which had now been published in the city; by which means Mordecai had had a sight of it, and had transcribed it; see Est 3:14 to show it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her; what Haman intended against the people of the Jews; as the Targum adds: and to charge her; in his name; whose charges she had always regarded, both before and since she was queen; or in the name of God: that she should go in unto the king to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people; signifying there was a necessity of doing it speedily, and of urging her request with great earnestness and importunity, since it was not the life of a single person, but the lives of a body of people, and her own, that lay at stake.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.