Esther 2:14

Darby's French Translation

Le soir elle allait, et le matin elle s'en revenait à la seconde maison des femmes, sous la surveillance de Shaashgaz, eunuque du roi, gardien des concubines. Elle n'entrait plus auprès du roi, à moins que le roi ne trouvât plaisir en elle, et qu'elle ne fût appelée par son nom.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Elle y entrait le soir; et sur le matin elle retournait dans la seconde maison des femmes, sous la garde de Shaashgaz, eunuque du roi, gardien des concubines. Elle n'entrait plus vers le roi, à moins que le roi n'en eût le désir, et qu'elle ne fût appelée par son nom.

Louis Segond (1910)
Elle y allait le soir; et le lendemain matin elle passait dans la seconde maison des femmes, sous la surveillance de Schaaschgaz, eunuque du roi et gardien des concubines. Elle ne retournait plus vers le roi, à moins que le roi n'en eût le désir et qu'elle ne fût appelée par son nom.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Elle y entrait sur le soir, et sur le matin elle retournait dans le second hôtel des femmes sous la charge de Sahasgaz Eunuque du Roi, gardien des concubines; [et] elle n'entrait plus vers le Roi, si ce n'est que le Roi la voulût, et qu'elle fût appelée nommément.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

delighted: Esther 4:11, Genesis 34:19, Deuteronomy 21:14, Isaiah 62:4, Isaiah 62:5

she were called: Isaiah 43:1, Isaiah 45:4

Reciprocal: Judges 19:1 - a concubine Esther 2:11 - walked

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women,.... Or the other apartment of the house of the women, where were kept those the king had made his concubines or secondary wives. Aben Ezra interprets it the second time, and so the Targum by "again":

to the custody of Shaashgaz the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines; of which the kings of Persia had a great number; Darius, whom Alexander conquered, had three hundred and sixty q:

she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she was called by name; but remained shut up in the house, and might not lie with, nor be married to, another man.

q Curt. Hist. l. 3. c. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The second house of the women - i. e. Esther returned to the “house of the women,” but not to the same part of it. She became an inmate of the “second house,” or “house of the concubines,” under the superintendence of a distinct officer, Shaashgaz.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. She returned into the second house — This was the place where the king's concubines were kept. They went out no more, and were never given in marriage to any man, and saw the king's face no more unless specially called.

Custody of Shaashgaz — This is probably another Persian name; [Persian] sheshkhunj, beardless, a proper epithet of a eunuch; or [Persian] sestgunj, weak loins, for the same reason. Names of this kind at once show the reason of their imposition, by describing the state of the person.