Esther 4:9-11

9So Hathach returned and told Esther what Mordecai had said.

10Esther spoke to Hathach and commanded him to say to Mordecai,

11“All the king’s advisers and the people in the king’s provinces know that no one approaches the king in the throne room without being summoned. By law that person must be put to death. Only if the king holds out the golden scepter to him will he live. I, myself, have not been summoned to enter the king’s presence for 30 days now.”