Estera 2:1

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

După aceste lucruri, cînd s'a potolit mînia împăratului Ahaşveroş, s'a gîndit la Vasti, la ce făcuse ea, şi la hotărîrea luată cu privire la ea.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3543, bc 461

he remembered: Daniel 6:14-18

what was decreed: Esther 1:12-21

Reciprocal: Esther 2:16 - the seventh

Gill's Notes on the Bible

After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was appeased,.... Which went off with his wine, and so was quickly after, a few days at most, unless this can be understood as after the expedition of Xerxes into Greece, from whence he returned to Shushan, in the seventh year of his reign; and if he is the Ahasuerus here meant, he married Esther that year, Esther 2:16 and it seems certain, that after his expedition he gave himself up to his amours, and in his way to Sardis he fell in love with his brother's wife, and then with his daughter b:

he remembered Vashti; her beauty, and was grieved, as Jarchi observes, that she was removed from him; and so Josephus says c, that he passionately loved her, and could not bear parting with her, and therefore was grieved that he had brought himself into such difficulties: the Targumists carry it further, and say that he was wroth with those that advised him to it, and ordered them to be put to death, and that they were:

and what she had done; that it was a trivial thing, and not deserving of such a sentence as he had passed upon her; that it was not done from contempt of him, but from modesty, and a strict regard to the laws of the Persians:

and what was decreed against her; that she should come no more before him, but be divorced from him; the thought of which gave him great pain and uneasiness.

b Herodot. Calliope, sive, l. 9. c. 107. c Antiqu. l. 11. c. 6. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These events must belong to the time between the great assembly held at Susa in Xerxes’ third year (483 B.C.), and the departure of the monarch on his expedition against Greece in his fifth year, 481 B.C.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER II

The counsellors advise that a selection of virgins should be

made throughout the empire, out of whom the king should choose

one to be queen in place of Vashti, 1-4.

Account of Mordecai and his cousin Esther, 5-7.

She is chosen among the young women, and is placed under the

care of Hegai, the king's chamberlain, to go through a year's

purification, 8-11.

The manner in which these young women were introduced to the

king, and how those were disposed of who were not called again

to the king's bed, 12-14.

Esther pleases the king, and is set above all the women; and he

makes her queen in the place of Vashti, and does her great

honour, 15-20.

Mordecai, sitting at the king's gate, discovers a conspiracy

formed against the king's life by two of his chamberlains; he

informs the king, the matter is investigated, they are found

guilty and hanged, and the transaction is recorded, 21-23.

NOTES ON CHAP. II