Est 2:20 | KingComments | STEP | The translation of may also read: “In connection with the bringing of the girls, in the second place, Mordecai was at the gate”. The “second” has to do with . There the first information about the relationship between Mordecai and Esther is given, after in the previous there is also talk about the gathering of girls. Now, after a second part about girls ( ), for the second time an announcement is given about the relationship between Mordecai and Esther. The first announcement shows a restless Mordecai who wants to know what happens to Esther ( ). Now that Mordecai knows what happens to Esther, he can quietly sit down in the gate again. The new message about Esther connects to this ( ). In the first message it says that Esther does not reveal her people and her ancestry, because Mordecai commanded her to do so ( ). In this second message it says the same thing, but the other way around, that she did not tell her ancestry and her people, also with the message that Mordecai commanded her. The message about Esther concludes by saying that she continues to obey Mordecai when she is queen, just as she obeyed him when he raised her. Her position has changed, her mind not. How important this is, we will see in the continuation of history. In practical terms, however, there is a lesson to be learned for all those who have grown up in simple circumstances and have risen to high social positions. Let them never renounce their origins and continue to honor their parents!

‏ Esther 2:20

Again Mordecai and Esther

The translation of Est 2:19 may also read: “In connection with the bringing of the girls, in the second place, Mordecai was at the gate”. The “second” has to do with Est 2:10-11. There the first information about the relationship between Mordecai and Esther is given, after in the previous Est 2:8-9 there is also talk about the gathering of girls. Now, after a second part about girls (Est 2:12-18), for the second time an announcement is given about the relationship between Mordecai and Esther.

The first announcement shows a restless Mordecai who wants to know what happens to Esther (Est 2:11). Now that Mordecai knows what happens to Esther, he can quietly sit down in the gate again. The new message about Esther connects to this (Est 2:20). In the first message it says that Esther does not reveal her people and her ancestry, because Mordecai commanded her to do so (Est 2:10). In this second message it says the same thing, but the other way around, that she did not tell her ancestry and her people, also with the message that Mordecai commanded her.

The message about Esther concludes by saying that she continues to obey Mordecai when she is queen, just as she obeyed him when he raised her. Her position has changed, her mind not. How important this is, we will see in the continuation of history.

In practical terms, however, there is a lesson to be learned for all those who have grown up in simple circumstances and have risen to high social positions. Let them never renounce their origins and continue to honor their parents!