Ezr 7:8, Est 2:1, 3 | TSK

Ezra 7:8

Esther 2:1

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 6:14-18

what was decreed.

1:12-21

Esther 2:3

in all the provinces.

1:1,2

that 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.

Hegai. 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