Esther 2
1 Out of the choice of virgins a queen is to be chosen.5 Mordecai the nursing father of Esther.8 Esther preferred before the rest.12 The manner of purification, and going in to the king.15 Esther best pleasing the king, is made queen.21 Mordecai discovering a treason, is recorded in the chronicles. A.M. 3543. B.C. 461. he remembered.Da 6:14-18what was decreed.1:12-21 king's servants.1:10,14; 6:14Let there be.Ge 12:14; 1Ki 1:2 in all the provinces.1:1,2that they may gather.This was the usual way in which the harem, or {seraglio,} was furnished; the finest women in the land, whether of high or low birth, were sought out and brought to the harem. They all became the king's concubines; but one was raised as chief wife, or sultana, to the throne; and her issue was especially entitled to inherit. the custody. Heb. the hand. Hege.8Hegai. the king's chamberlain.{Saris hammelech,} "the king's eunuch:" so the LXX., Vulgate, Targum, and Syriac. their things.12-14; Isa 3:18-23 let the maiden.Mt 20:16; 22:14the thing.1:21; 3:9,10; 2Sa 13:4-6; 16:21-23; 17:4; Mt 14:6 Shushan.3; 1:2; 5:1a certain Jew.3:2-6; 10:3the son of Shimei.1Sa 9:1; 2Sa 16:5 Jeconiah.2Ki 24:6,14,15; 2Ch 36:9,10,20Jeboiachin.Jer 22:24,28Coniah.Jer 24:1 brought up. Heb. nourished.Eph 6:4Hadassah.Da 1:6,7his uncle's.15; Jer 32:7-12fair and beautiful. Heb. fair of form and good ofcountenance. 1:11took.Ge 48:5; 2Co 6:18; 1Jo 3:1 Hegai.One of Dr. Kennicott's MSS., instead of Hegai has Hegé, as in ver. 3. 3 she obtained.Ge 39:21; 1Ki 8:50; Ezr 7:6; Ne 2:8; Ps 106:46; Pr 16:7; Da 1:9Ac 7:10her her things.3,12such things. Heb. her portions. preferred her. Heb.changed her. had not shewed.3:8; 4:13,14; 7:4; Mt 10:16for Mordecai.7,20; Eph 6:1 Mordecai.The apartments of the women are accounted so inviolable, that it is even a crime to enquire what passes within their walls. A man, says Chardin, may walk a hundred days, one after the other, by the house where the women are, and yet know no more what is done there than at the farther end of Tartary. This sufficiently explains the conduct of Mordecai. walked.13,14how Esther did. Heb. the peace of Esther.Ge 37:14; 1Sa 17:18; Ac 15:36 A.M. 3546. B.C. 458. to go in.1Th 4:4,5six months.Pr 7:17; So 3:6; Isa 57:9; Lu 7:37,38 13 delighted.4:11; Ge 34:19; De 21:14; Isa 62:4,5she were called.Isa 43:1; 45:4 who had taken.7Esther.So 6:9; 8:10; Ac 7:10 the tenth month.8:9the seventh.1,3; Ezr 7:8 favour. or, kindness. in his sight. Heb. before him. sothat he set. 4:14; 1Sa 2:8; Ps 75:6,7; 113:7,8; Eze 17:24; Lu 1:48-52Bishop Patrick observes, that those who suggest that Esther committed a great sin to come at the dignity of queen of Persia, do not consider the custom of those times and countries. Every one that the king took to his bed was married to him, and was his wife of a lower rank, as Hagar was to Abraham. A.M. 3547. B.C. 457. made a great.1:3-5; Ge 29:22; Jud 14:10-17; So 3:11; 5:1; Mt 22:2; Lu 14:8Re 19:9he made.We learn from Herodotus and Athenæus, that the Persian monarchs were accustomed to give their wives distinct cities and provinces for the purpose of supplying them with different articles of dress: one was assigned for ornamenting the head and neck; another provided robes, zones, etc.; and the city of Anthilla was given to a Persian queen, we read, to supply her with shoes and sandals. It is probable, therefore, that, at the desire of Esther, Ahasuerus relieved those cities and provinces that had before paid it, from this expense. release. Heb. rest. gave gifts.9:22; 1Sa 25:8; Ne 8:11; Re 11:10 the virgins.3,4sat in the king's gate.21; 3:2,3; 5:13 had not yet shewed.10for Esther.Eph 6:1-3 Bigthan.6:2Bigthana. door. Heb. threshold. and sought.2Sa 4:5,6; 16:11; 1Ki 15:25-27; 16:9; 2Ki 9:22-24; 12:20; 21:23Ps 144:10 the thing.Ec 10:20; Ac 23:12-22and Esther certified.6:1,2; Ro 11:33Mordecai's name.Php 2:4 hanged.5:14; 7:10; Ge 40:19,22; De 21:22,23; Jos 8:29the book.6:1,2; Mal 3:16
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