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Verse 14. _SHE RETURNED INTO THE SECOND HOUSE_] This was the place
where the king's _concubines_ were kept. They went out no more, and
were never given in marriage to any man, and saw the king's face...
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THE SECOND HOUSE OF THE WOMEN - i. e. Esther returned to the “house
of the women,” but not to the same part of it. She became an inmate
of the “second house,” or “house of the concubines,” under the
s...
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ESTHER CHOSEN QUEEN. Ere long Ahasuerus longs for his lost queen's
comradeship. He is moved to issue a summons throughout all his
territories, commanding all fair maidens to appear as candidates for
t...
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C. Season of Preparation
TEXT: Esther 2:12-14
12
Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to king Ahasuerus,
after that it had been done to her according to the law for the women
twelve m...
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_IN THE EVENING SHE WENT, AND ON THE MORROW SHE RETURNED INTO THE
SECOND HOUSE OF THE WOMEN, TO THE CUSTODY OF SHAASHGAZ, THE KING'S
CHAMBERLAIN, WHICH KEPT THE CONCUBINES: SHE CAME IN UNTO THE KING N...
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INTO THE SECOND HOUSE OF THE WOMEN] so LXX. Some render, 'returned a
second time' (i.e. back again) 'into the house of the women,' but at
any rate into a different quarter of it, where they were under...
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THE CHOICE OF ESTHER TO BE QUEEN. MORDECAI'S SERVICE
1. He remembered, etc.] LXX has 'he thought no more of Vashti,
remembering what,' etc....
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GOD IS IN CONTROL
Book of Esther
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 2
V1 Later, when the king was not still angry, he thought about Vashti.
He remembered what she had done. And he remembered the law that he h...
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בָּ † עֶ֣רֶב ׀ הִ֣יא בָאָ֗ה וּ֠ בַ...
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THE SERVICE OF A FOREIGNER
Esther 2:1
Esther's Hebrew name meant Myrtle. It could not have been easy for her
to retain her sweet simplicity amid the corruptions of her time, but
her Persian name mean...
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In this chapter we have a revelation of customs obtaining in the
household of the king. We can read them with thankfulness that
wherever the purifying forces of revealed religion have operated they
ha...
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(8) So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was
heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the
palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought als...
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The Beauty Contest
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Last week we saw Queen Vashti loose everything for refusing to come
to the party when King Xerxes requested her presence!
1. Not only did she loose her crown a...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 10.
The Book of Nehemiah has shewn us Judah reinstated in the land, but
deprived of the presence of God, except as to general blessing, and
unacknow...
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IN THE EVENING SHE WENT, AND ON THE MORROW SHE RETURNED INTO THE
SECOND HOUSE OF THE WOMEN,.... Or the other apartment of the house of
the women, where were kept those the king had made his concubines...
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In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the
second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's
chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no...
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In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the
second house of the women, the harem of the concubines, TO THE CUSTODY
OF SHAASHGAZ, THE KING'S CHAMBERLAIN, the eunuch in charge of th...
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THE CHOICE OF VIRGINS FOR THE POSITION OF QUEEN...
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ESTHER CHOSEN AS QUEEN
(vv. 1-18)
We read nothing more as to Vashti, whether she was simply banished
from the king's court or killed. But it was four years before the king
married a queen to take Va...
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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...
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Darius Nothus is reckoned to have had three hundred and sixty
CONCUBINES....
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CONTENTS: Esther made queen.
CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Mordecai, Esther, Hegai, Bigthan, Teresh,
Shaashgaz.
CONCLUSION: God sometimes raises up the poor out of the dust to set
them among princes. Those...
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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...
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_Whose name was Mordecai._
MORDECAI
Providence opens avenues through which merit may attain elevation.
I. Mordecai was kind to his orphan cousin. He brought her up, adopting
her as his own daughter....
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_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...
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ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 2:12 MYRRH. An expensive perfume obtained from
trees native to Africa and southern Asia. CONCUBINES, the king’s
mistresses, were housed separately (in the second harem
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ESTHER 2:13. WHATSOEVER SHE DESIRED] In the way of jewels, ornaments,
or dress. “No doubt,” says Rawlinson, “the virgins generally
took the opportunity—one that would occur but once...
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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,
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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...
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Deuteronomy 21:14; Esther 4:11; Genesis 34:19; Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 45: