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[Chester]

Esther 2:2 Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king: KJV

 

[Chester]

Esther 2:3 KJV
And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:

 

[Deade]

Esther 2:4 (ESV)

And let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This pleased the king, and he did so.

 

[Deade]

Esther 2:5 (ESV)

Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 2:6 (KJV)
Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

 

[Deade]

Esther 2:7 (ESV)

He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

 

[Deade]

Esther 2:8 (ESV)

So when the king's order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many young women were gathered in Susa the citadel in custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken into the king's palace and put in custody of Hegai, who had charge of the women.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 2:9 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her ointments, with her portions, and the seven maidens, who were meet to be given her out of the king's house; and he advanced her and her maidens to the best place in the house of the women.

 

[Deade]

Esther 2:10 (NIV)

Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so.

 

[Deade]

Esther 2:11 (NIV)

Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 2:12 (Jubilee 2000 Bible)
Now when each maid's turn was come to go in to King Ahasuerus, after she had been twelve months according to the law regarding the women (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with aromatic odours and oils for women),

 

[Deade]

Esther 2:13 (NIV)

And this is how she would go to the king: Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.

 

[Deade]

Esther 2:14 (NIV)

In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 2:15 (KJV)
Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 2:16 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 2:17 (AKJV)
And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

 

[Deade]

Esther 2:18 (KJV)

Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.

 

[Deade]

Esther 2:19 (KJV)

And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 2:20 (BSB)
Esther still had not revealed her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed. She obeyed Mordecai’s command, as she had done under his care.

 

[Deade]

Esther 2:21 (NIV)

During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s officers who guarded the doorway, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.