Esther 5:2

Darby's French Translation

Et aussitôt que le roi vit la reine Esther se tenant dans la cour, elle trouva faveur à ses yeux. Et le roi tendit à Esther le sceptre d'or qui était dans sa main. Et Esther s'approcha et toucha le bout du sceptre.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et lorsque le roi vit la reine Esther qui se tenait debout dans la cour, elle trouva gr�ce � ses yeux, et le roi tendit � Esther le sceptre d'or qui �tait en sa main; et Esther s'approcha, et toucha le bout du sceptre.

Louis Segond (1910)
Lorsque le roi vit la reine Esther debout dans la cour, elle trouva gr�ce � ses yeux; et le roi tendit � Esther le sceptre d'or qu'il tenait � la main. Esther s'approcha, et toucha le bout du sceptre.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Or d�s que le Roi vit la Reine Esther qui se tenait debout au parvis, elle gagna ses bonnes gr�ces; de sorte que le Roi tendit � Esther le sceptre d'or qui �tait en sa main; et Esther s'approcha, et toucha le bout du sceptre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

she: Genesis 32:28, Nehemiah 1:11, Psalms 116:1, Proverbs 21:1, Acts 7:10, Acts 10:4

golden sceptre: Esther 4:11, Esther 8:4

Reciprocal: Numbers 32:5 - if we have Psalms 69:13 - in an Jeremiah 38:10 - the king

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight,.... Which no doubt was of God, who has the hearts of kings in his hand, and turns them as he pleases; the king had not called her for thirty days past, or more, which showed coolness of affection to her, and now she transgressed a law by coming uncalled for, which might have provoked his wrath; and for a lesser matter than this was Vashti divorced; but yet his mind was inclined to her, and she appeared very amiable and pleasing to him:

and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand; as a token of his well pleasedness in her, and acceptance of her; and that no harm should come to her for transgressing the law:

so Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre; as acknowledging his kindness, and her thankfulness for it, as well as subjection and obedience to him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 5:2. She obtained favour in his sight — The Septuagint represents "the king as being at first greatly enraged when he saw Esther, because she had dared to appear before him unveiled, and she, perceiving this, was so terrified that she fainted away; on which the king, touched with tenderness, sprung from his throne, took her up in his arms, laid the golden sceptre on her neck, and spoke to her in the most endearing manner." This is more circumstantial than the Hebrew, but is not contrary to it.

The golden sceptre that was in his hand. — That the kings of Persia did wear a golden sceptre, we have the following proof in Xenophon: Ὁτι ου τοδε το χρυσουν σκηπτρον το την βασιλειαν διασωξον εστιν, αλλ' πιστοι φιλοι σκηπτρον βασιλευσιν αληθεστατον και ασφαλεστατον. See Cyrop., lib. viii., p. 139, edit. Steph. 1581. It is not, said Cyrus to his son Cambyses, the GOLDEN SCEPTRE that saves the kingdom; faithful friends are the truest and safest sceptre of the empire.