Esther 2:2-16
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 7:8Proverbs 29:12
20:8; 25:23; 1Sa 22:8-23; 23:19-23; 2Sa 3:7-11; 4:5-121Ki 21:11-13; 2Ki 10:6,7; Ps 52:2-4; 101:5-7Hosea 7:4-5
are all.4:2,12; Jer 5:7,8; 9:2; Jas 4:4as.6,7who ceaseth, etc. or, the raiser will cease. raising. or,waking. the day.Ge 40:20; Da 5:1-4; Mt 14:6; Mr 6:21made.Pr 20:1; Isa 5:11,12,22,23; 28:1,7,8; Hab 2:15,16; Eph 5:181Pe 4:3,4bottles of wine. or, heat through wine. he stretched.1Ki 13:4with scorners.Ps 1:1; 69:12; Pr 13:20; 23:29-35; Da 5:4,23
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