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Esther 2
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The Holy Bible, New International Version®

Book of Esther
Chapter 2
2:1 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Later when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her.	Study Resource List NTB -> Government; Servant; Vashti
2:2 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Then the king's personal attendants proposed, "Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.	Study Resource List NTB -> Marriage BED -> Good, Goodness
2:3 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful girls into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them.	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain; Harem; Hegai; Lasciviousness; Marriage EBD -> Chamberlain; Eunuch SBD -> Abimelech; Hege; Province
2:4 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Then let the girl who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain; Marriage; Persia; Vashti
2:5 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain; Jair; Kish; Mordecai; Shimei; Shushan (Susa) BED -> Esther, Theology of; Jews, Judaism EBD -> Jair; Kish SBD -> Jair; Kish; Shimei
2:6 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin F3 king of Judah.	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain; Jehoiachin; Mordecai SBD -> Captivities of the Jews
2:7 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This girl, who was also known as Esther, was lovely in form and features, and Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.	Study Resource List NTB -> Adoption; Beauty; Chamberlain; Esther; Hadassah; Kindness; Love; Mordecai; Orphan TTT -> Adoption; Fatherless BED -> Adoption; Good, Goodness EBD -> Adoption; Esther; Hadassah SBD -> Hadassah
2:8 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] When the king's order and edict had been proclaimed, many girls were brought to the citadel of Susa and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king's palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem.	Study Resource List NTB -> Captive; Chamberlain; Hegai; Marriage; Shushan (Susa) EBD -> Hegai SBD -> Hegai
2:9 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] The girl pleased him and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven maids selected from the king's palace and moved her and her maids into the best place in the harem.	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain; Marriage; Seven; Women TTT -> Woman
2:10 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so.	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain; Marriage; Tact
2:11 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] 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.	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain; Marriage; Women TTT -> Woman
2:12 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Before a girl's turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics.	Study Resource List NTB -> Anointing; Chamberlain; Marriage; Myrrh; Ointment; Purification TTT -> Anointing; Medo-Persian Kingdom; Months; Oil BED -> Oil EBD -> Myrrh SBD -> Bath, Bathing; Myrrh
2:13 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] 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.	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain; Lasciviousness; Marriage TTT -> Medo-Persian Kingdom
2:14 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] 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.	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain; Lasciviousness; Marriage; Shaashgaz EBD -> Chamberlain; Shaashgaz
2:15 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] When the turn came for Esther (the girl Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her.	Study Resource List NTB -> Abihail; Chamberlain; Esther; Hegai TTT -> Wives EBD -> Abihail; Esther SBD -> Abihail; Hegai
2:16 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain; Month; Tebeth TTT -> Months; Wives EBD -> Tebeth SBD -> Month
2:17 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain; Crown; Esther; Queen; Vashti TTT -> Wives EBD -> Crown SBD -> Crown; Diadem
2:18 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] And the king gave a great banquet, Esther's banquet, for all his nobles and officials. He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain; Marriage
2:19 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate.	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain; Lasciviousness
2:20 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai's instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.	Study Resource List NTB -> Chamberlain TTT -> Children, Good
2:21 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthana F4 and Teresh, two of the king's officers who guarded the doorway, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.	Study Resource List NTB -> Bigthan; Chamberlain; Citizens; Conspiracy; Loyalty; Mordecai; Teresh EBD -> Abagtha; Bigthan; Chamberlain; Mordecai; Teresh SBD -> Bigthan, or Bigthana; Teresh
2:22 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] But Mordecai found out about the plot and told Queen Esther, who in turn reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai.	Study Resource List NTB -> Bigthan; Citizens; Conspiracy; Esther; Loyalty; Mordecai; Teresh EBD -> Bigthan
2:23 - [ In Context | Read Chapter | Discuss this Verse ] [ Multi-Translation ] And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were hanged on a gallows. F5 All this was recorded in the book of the annals in the presence of the king.	Study Resource List NTB -> Bigthan; Citizens; Conspiracy; Gallows; Loyalty; Mordecai; Punishment; Teresh; Treason TTT -> Books EBD -> Bigthan
FOOTNOTES: F3 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin F4 Hebrew Bigthan, a variant of Bigthana F5 Or were hung (or impaled) on poles; similarly elsewhere in Esther

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