Esther 2:10

Darby's French Translation

Esther n'avait pas fait connaître son peuple et sa naissance, car Mardochée lui avait commandé de ne pas les faire connaître.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Esther ne déclara point son peuple ni sa naissance; car Mardochée lui avait enjoint de n'en rien déclarer.

Louis Segond (1910)
Esther ne fit connaître ni son peuple ni sa naissance, car Mardochée lui avait défendu d'en parler.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
[Or] Esther ne déclara point son peuple, ni son parentage, car Mardochée lui avait enjoint de n'en rien déclarer.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

had not showed: Esther 3:8, Esther 4:13, Esther 4:14, Esther 7:4, Matthew 10:16

for Mordecai: Esther 2:7, Esther 2:20, Ephesians 6:1

Reciprocal: Hebrews 3:4 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred,.... What nation or family she was of; it not being asked, she was under no obligation to declare it; and being born in Shushan, as very probable, she was taken to be a Persian:

for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it; lest she should be despised and ill treated on that account; fearing, if the king knew it, he would not marry her, as Aben Ezra; or rather, as the same writer thinks, that she might keep the law of God privately, observe the sabbath, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Persians had no special contempt for the Jews; but, of course, they despised more or less all the subject races. Esther, with her Aryan name, may have passed for a native Persian.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 2:10. Esther had not showed her people — This might have prejudiced her with the king; for it was certainly no credit at the Persian court to be a Jew; and we shall find from the sequel that those who were in the Persian dominions were far from being reputable, or in a safe state. Besides, had her lineage been known, envy might have prevented her from ever having access to the king.