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Ester 2:15

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abihail;   Chamberlain;   Esther;   Hegai;   Thompson Chain Reference - Favour, Human;   Favour-Disfavour;   Human;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Wives;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Abihail;   Esther;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abihail;   Esther;   Hegai;   Persia;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abihail;   Adoption;   Esther;   Eunuch;   Hegai;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abihail;   Beeltethmus;   Hegai;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Abihil ;   Hegai, Hege ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Abiha'il;   Hega'i;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abihail;   Adoption;   Hegai;   Shaashgaz;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abihail;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Esther, Apocryphal Book of;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for July 14;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka apabila sampailah giliran Ester, anak Abikhail, mamak Mordekhai, yang sudah mengangkat anak akan dia, bahwa iapun masuk menghadap baginda, maka satupun tiada dikehendakinya melainkan barang yang dikatakan oleh Hejai, sida-sida baginda, yang menunggui segala perempuan itu, maka Esterpun berkenan kepada pemandangan segala orang yang melihat dia.

Contextual Overview

1 After these actes, when the displeasure of king Ahasuerus was nowe alayed, he thought vpon Uasthi, & what she had done, & what was decreed against her. 2 Then sayde the kinges seruauntes that ministred vnto hym: Let there be faire young virgins sought for the king, 3 And let the king appoynt officers in all the prouinces of his empire, that they should bring together al the faire young virgins vnto Susan the head citie to the womens buylding, vnder the hande of Hegai the kinges chamberlayne that kept the women, to geue them their apparell: 4 And that the mayden which pleased the king, should be queene in Uasthis steede. And this pleased the king, and he did so. 5 In the citie of Susan there was a certayne Iewe, whose name was Mardocheus, the sonne of Iair, the sonne of Semei, the sonne of Cis, a man of Iemini, 6 Which was caryed away from Hierusalem with the captiuitie, when Iekonia the king of Iuda was led away, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon caryed thence: 7 And he norished Hadassa (that is Esther) his vncles daughter: for he had neither father nor mother, and she was a faire and beautifull mayden, whom Mardocheus (when her father & mother were dead) receaued for his owne daughter. 8 So when the kinges commaundement and commission was published, and many maydens were brought together into the citie of Susan vnder the hand of Hegai, Esther was brought also vnto the kinges house vnder the hande of Hegai the keper of the women. 9 And the mayden pleased hym, and she founde fauour in his sight: and he caused ornamentes to be geuen her speedyly, and such thinges as belonged to her, and appoynted her seuen comely maydens out of the kinges house, & fauoured both her and her gentlewomen singularly in the house of the women. 10 But Esther shewed not her people and her kinred: for Mardocheus had charged her that she shoulde not tell it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

who had taken: Esther 2:7

Esther: Song of Solomon 6:9, Song of Solomon 8:10, Acts 7:10

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 9:32 - eunuchs Esther 4:14 - but thou Esther 8:1 - came before

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
And in the seuenth day God ended his worke whiche he had made. And the seueth day he rested from all his worke which he had made.
Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.
Job 31:33
Haue I kept secrete my sinne, and hyd myne iniquitie, as Adam dyd?
Psalms 128:2
For thou shalt eate the labours of thine handes: thou shalt be happy, and [all] shall go well with thee.
Ephesians 4:28
Let hym that stole, steale no more: but let hym rather labour, workyng with his handes the thyng whiche is good, that he may geue vnto hym that needeth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now when the turn of Esther the daughter of Abihail,.... For this was her father's name, and not Aminadab, as the Septuagint version:

the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter; which makes it quite clear that Mordecai was not Esther's uncle, as Josephus, but her own cousin: now when her turn

was come to go in unto the king; which the virgins under purification took by turns, Esther 2:14,

she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed; what he ordered her to have, or to do, she submitted to, being in his hands, and so obeyed his orders; but more she asked not, either for ornament or attendance, being not at all solicitous whether the king liked her or not; for it was not of choice, but by constraint, she went unto him; nor needed she anything to recommend her, her virtue, modesty, and beauty, were sufficient:

and Esther obtained favour of all them that looked upon her: when she came to court, the eyes of all were attracted to her; all admired her beauty, her innocent and modest look, and her graceful mien and deportment.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

She required nothing - The other virgins perhaps loaded themselves with precious ornaments of various kinds, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, anklets, and the like. Esther let Hegai dress her as he would.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. She required nothing — She left this entirely to her friend Hege, who seems to have been intent on her success. She therefore left her decorations to his judgment alone, and went in that dress and in those ornaments which he deemed most suitable.


 
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