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PakkosiirtolaisuusLeaderc. 5th century BC
Hatah (also known as Hatakh) was one of King Ahasuerus' chamberlains appointed to serve Queen Esther. He acted as a messenger between Esther and her foster father Mordecai during the critical period when the Jews were threatened by Haman's extermination plan. His faithful service as an intermediary was crucial for the communication that led to the salvation of the Jewish people.
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Appointed to Serve Esther
Hatah was one of the king's chamberlains who was designated to serve Queen Esther personally at court.
5Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs assigned to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai and find out what this was about and why.
5Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs assigned to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai and find out what this was about and why.
Mordecai told Hatak everything that had happened to him, including the exact sum of money Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasury to have the Jews destroyed, and gave him a copy of the decree of destruction.
7and Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the exact amount of silver Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews.
8He also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their annihilation, to show Esther and explain it to her, and to charge her to go to the king to plead with him and beg him for her people.
Hatak brought Mordecai's message and a copy of the decree back to Esther, and then conveyed Esther's reply back to Mordecai, where she explained her fear of approaching the king uninvited.
11"All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that for any man or woman who goes to the king in the inner court without being summoned, there is but one law: death — unless the king extends the golden scepter and spares that person's life. And I have not been summoned to the king for thirty days now."
14For if you keep silent at a time like this, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows? Perhaps you have come to the throne for just such a time as this."