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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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AS. according as.
FOR, &C. Thus revealing. new characteristic of Esther. This secrecy
was hardly needed if the emancipation of Ezra 1:1 had already taken
place.
COMMANDMENT. Hebrew. _'amar_, as in E...
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Mordecai's discovery of the plot against the king's life
19. _And when the virgins were gathered together the second time_
Render, _Now when maidens were being gathered together a second time_.
There...
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_Esther had not yet shewed etc._ In the East, when persons rise in
rank, it is expected that their relatives will rise with them. But the
connexion between Esther and Mordecai had not been disclosed,...
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E. Sedition Revealed
TEXT: Esther 2:19-23
19
And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then
Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate.
20
Esther had not yet made known her kindre...
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_AND WHEN THE VIRGINS WERE GATHERED TOGETHER THE SECOND TIME, THEN
MORDECAI SAT IN THE KING'S GATE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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ESTHER HAD NOT YET ... — Perhaps this verse is added to meet the
supposition that the king wished to replace Esther through finding out
her nation....
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אֵ֣ין אֶסְתֵּ֗ר מַגֶּ֤דֶת
מֹֽולַדְתָּהּ֙ וְ אֶת...
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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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_Commandment. No one interrogated her, as she had been educated as
Susa, and was taken for a Persian lady, ver. 10. (Menochius)_...
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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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ESTHER HAD NOT SHOWED HER KINDRED NOR HER PEOPLE, AS MORDECAI HAD
CHARGED HER,.... As not before, so neither since she was made queen,
see Esther 2:10, though, according to the Targums, she was urged...
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Esther had not [yet] shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai
had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as
when she was brought up with him.
Ver. 20. _Esther had not yet...
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Esther had not yet showed her kindred nor her people, had not divulged
her nationality, AS MORDECAI HAD CHARGED HER; FOR ESTHER DID THE
COMMANDMENT OF MORDECAI LIKE AS WHEN SHE WAS BROUGHT UP WITH HIM...
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ESTHER CHOSEN 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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Esther 2:20 Esther H635 revealed H5046 (H8688) family H4138 people
H5971 Mordecai H4782 charged H6680 (H8765) Esther...
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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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_For Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was
brought up with him._
REPAYING PARENTAL KINDNESS
Then I would say that there is a lesson here for the young. How can
they repay in an...
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_So that he set the royal crown upon her head._
THE ELEVATION OF WOMAN
Gloss it as you may, this is not pleasant reading, and yet not
unprofitable, having much to say to us, and especially to women,...
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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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ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 2:19__ Mordecai happens to be in the right
place at the right time to serve King Ahasuerus. This is one of many
examples of God’s hidden direction of events, though God is never...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
ESTHER 2:15. SHE REQUIRED NOTHING] She made no effort to adorn her
person with jewellery or dress to please her own fancy, but left the
matter entirely to Hegai, who would be likely...
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EXPOSITION
MORDECAI'S DISCOVERY OF A PLOT AGAINST AHASUERUS' LIFE (Esther
2:19-17). Some time after Esther had been made queen, there was a
second collection of virgins at Susa (verse 19), under circu...
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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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Ephesians 6:1; Esther 2:10...
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ESTHER, THE JEWISH QUEEN
Esther 2:17
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
"God works in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform."
The eye of God had beheld a growing antagonism against His people,
Israel, during t...