Go, gather together all the Jews that are found in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise, and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.

On that night sleep fled from the king. And he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.