Job 2:10

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Et audierunt Sanaballat Horonites, et Tobias servus Ammanites : et contristati sunt afflictione magna, quod venisset homo, qui quæreret prosperitatem filiorum Israël.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Quæ noluit indicare ei populum et patriam suam: Mardochæus enim præceperat ei, ut de hac re omnino reticeret:

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Quae non indicaverat ei populum et cognationem suam; Mardochaeus enim praeceperat, ut de hac re omnino reticeret.

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.