Esther 2:2-16
king's servants Esth 1:10, Esth 1:14, Esth 6:14 Let there be Gen 12:14; 1Kgs 1:2 in all the provinces Esth 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 Esth 2:8, Hegai the king's chamberlain Saris hammelech, "the king's eunuch:" so the LXX, Vulgate, Targum, and Syriac. their things Esth 2:12-14; Isa 3:18-23 let the maiden Matt 20:16, Matt 22:14 the thing Esth 1:21, Esth 3:9-10; 2Sam 13:4-6, 2Sam 16:21-23, 2Sam 17:4; Matt 14:6 Shushan Esth 2:3, Esth 1:2, Esth 5:1 a certain Jew Esth 3:2-6, Esth 10:3 the son of Shimei 1Sam 9:1; 2Sam 16:5 Jeconiah 2Kgs 24:6, 2Kgs 24:14-15; 2Chr 36:9-10, 2Chr 36:20, Jeboiachin, Jer 22:24, Jer 22:28, Coniah, Jer 24:1 brought up Heb. nourished, Eph 6:4 Hadassah Dan 1:6-7 his uncle's Esth 2:15; Jer 32:7-12 fair and beautiful Heb. fair of form and good of countenance, Esth 1:11 took Gen 48:5; 2Cor 6:18; 1John 3:1 Hegai One of Dr. Kennicott's manuscripts, instead of Hegai has Hege, as in Esth 2:3. she obtained Gen 39:21; 1Kgs 8:50; Ezra 7:6; Neh 2:8; Ps 106:46; Prov 16:7; Dan 1:9; Acts 7:10 her her things Esth 2:3, Esth 2:12 such things Heb. her portions preferred her Heb. changed her. had not showed Esth 3:8, Esth 4:13-14, Esth 7:4; Matt 10:16 for Mordecai Esth 2:7, Esth 2:20; 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 Esth 2:13-14 how Esther did Heb. the peace of Esther, Gen 37:14; 1Sam 17:18; Acts 15:36 am 3546, bc 458 to go in 1Thess 4:4-5 six months Prov 7:17; Song 3:6; Isa 57:9; Luke 7:37-38 delighted Esth 4:11; Gen 34:19; Deut 21:14; Isa 62:4-5 she were called Isa 43:1, Isa 45:4 who had taken Esth 2:7 Esther Song 6:9, Song 8:10; Acts 7:10 the tenth month Esth 8:9 the seventh Esth 2:1, Esth 2:3; Ezra 7:8
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