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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Esther 2:3

Keeper — Of all the women, both virgins and concubines: only the virgins he himself took care of, as requiring more care and caution, and the concubines be committed to Shaashgaz, Esther 2:14, his deputy. Purification — That is, to cleanse them from all impurities, to perfume, and adorn, and every way prepare them for the king: for the legal purification of the Jews he never regarded.

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See also Esther 2:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Esther 2:3. _HEGE THE KING'S CHAMBERLAIN_] הגא סריס המלך _Hege seris_ _hammelech_, "Hege, the king's _eunuch_;" so the Septuagint, Vulgate, Targum, and Syriac. In the Eastern countries the women...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE HOUSE OF THE WOMEN - i. e. the “gynaeceon,” or “haram” - always an essential part of an Oriental palace (Compare 1 Kings 7:8). In the Persian palaces it was very extensive, since the monarchs main...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CUSTODY. hand. CHAMBERLAIN. eunuch....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    2:3 custody (c-38) Lit. 'under the hand.' purification (d-53) Or 'preparation.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE HOUSE OF THE WOMEN. — The harem, then as now, A prominent feature in the establishment of an Eastern king. HEGE. — Called Hegai in Esther 2:8; a eunuch whose special charge seems to have been the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ יַפְקֵ֨ד הַ מֶּ֣לֶךְ פְּקִידִים֮ בְּ כָל

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then said the king's servants_ Who, for their own interests, were obliged to quiet the king's mind, and procure him another amiable consort. _To the house of the women_ Or rather, of the virgins; for...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CHOICE OF VIRGINS FOR THE POSITION OF QUEEN...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-20 We see to what absurd practices those came, who were destitute of Divine revelation, and what need there was of the gospel of Christ, to purify men from the lusts of the flesh, and to bring them...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Esther 2:3 king H4428 appoint H6485 (H8686) officers H6496 provinces H4082 kingdom H4438 gather H6908 (H8799) beautiful...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    HEGE Or, Hegai, (Esther 2:8)....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Esther 2:3. _Gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace._ The polygamy we have hitherto seen is small in comparison of the indulgences of the Babylonian and Persian court. This...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And let the king appoint officers _ THE WEAK AND LOWLY Poor, helpless, feeble, may be the earthward aspect of true religion. Beggars shall be taken from the dunghill, to set them among princes. God...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 2:1 The YOUNG MEN were probably the king’s personal household servants (see Esther 6:3). EUNUCH. See note on...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 2:2.] The youths, or male domestics, without regard to age, that served before the king, sought to avert the danger that threatened. They advised that maidens, virgins, be bro...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE QUEST FOR MAIDENS, AND THE CHOICE OF ESTHER TO BE QUEEN IN VASHTI'S PLACE (Esther 2:1). Vashti having ceased to be queen,

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And so, after these things, the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, and he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. Then said the king's servant that ministered un...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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