Esther 2:1

ESTHER CHAPTER 2 The virgins of the kingdom being gathered together, a queen is to be chosen, Esther 2:1. Esther, nursed by Mordecai, is chosen to be one of the virgins, Esther 2:5; and preferred before the rest, Esther 2:9. The manner of her purification, Esther 2:12. She pleaseth the king, and is made queen, Esther 2:15. The king makes a feast for his princes and servants, Esther 2:18. Mordecai discovereth a treason against the king, Esther 2:21,22; which is recorded in their chronicles, Esther 2:23. He remembered Vashti with grief and shame, that in his wine and rage he had so severely punished, and so irrevocably rejected, so beautiful and desirable a person, and that for so small a provocation, to which she was easily led by the modesty of her sex, and by the laws and customs of Persia.