when, &c.. while they were collecting, &c.
sat in the king's gate. Mordecai was of the king's household. See Esther 2:5. This guarded Esther's interests, and enabled him to obtain all information. (N. B. Haman lived in his own house with his family in the city.)
WHEN THE VIRGINS ... - Rather, “when virgins” etc. The words begin a new paragraph. There was a second collection of virgins (after that of Esther 2:8), and it was at the time of this second collectio...
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...
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...
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...
_AND WHEN THE VIRGINS WERE GATHERED TOGETHER THE SECOND TIME, THEN MORDECAI SAT IN THE KING'S GATE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
AND WHEN THE VIRGINS, etc.] Some connect this with Esther 2:14, and take 'the virgins' to mean 'the young women.' Others render, 'now when virgins were gathered together a second time' (as on the earl...
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....
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...
AND WHEN THE VIRGINS ... — Here begins a fresh incident in the history, whose date we cannot fix precisely, save that it falls between the marriage of Esther and the twelfth year of Ahasuerus (Esther...
וּ בְ הִקָּבֵ֥ץ בְּתוּלֹ֖ות שֵׁנִ֑ית וּ מָרְד
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...
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...
And when the virgins were gathered together the (m) second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate. (m) That is, at the marriage of Esther, which was the second marriage for the king....
_And. Septuagint, "But Mardochai," &c. (Haydock) --- They say nothing of the gifts, ver. 18. --- Second. The same process had been observed before, when Vasthi was chosen. (Calmet) --- Mardochai was p...
(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...
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...
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...
AND WHEN THE VIRGINS WERE GATHERED TOGETHER THE SECOND TIME,.... Some think this second collection is that which was made when Esther was taken and brought to the keeper of the women, called the secon...
And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate. Ver. 19. _And when the virgins were gathered together, &c._] For a new supply of the king's insatiab...
_When the virgins were gathered together the second time_ They in all probability were gathered together first in the provinces, and afterward in Susa, before they were taken into the house of the kin...
And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, this having reference to the time before Esther's marriage, THEN MORDECAI SAT IN THE KING'S GATE, in his capacity as official of the court....
ESTHER CHOSEN QUEEN...
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...
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...
THE SECOND TIME; either, 1. When Esther, with others, were brought to the king's house, as it was decreed above, ESTHER 2:2,3, which is called _the second time_, because they had taken this course on...
Esther 2:19 virgins H1330 together H6908 (H8736) time H8145 Mordecai H4782 sat H3427 (H8802) kings H4428 gate...
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...
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...
_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,...
_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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Esther 2:21; Esther 2:3; Esther 2:4; Esther 3:2; Esther 3:3;...
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...
Sat — By office, as one of the king's guards or ministers; being advanced to this place by Esther's favour....