Esther 4:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

None might enter... — That nothing sad or ill-omened might meet the monarch’s gaze, as though by shutting his eyes, as it were, to the presence of sorrow, or sickness, or death, he might suppose that he was successfully evading them.

Esther 4:2

2 And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.