Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The house of the women - i. e. the "gynaeceon," or "haram" - always an essential part of an Oriental palace (Compare I Kings 7:8). In the Persian palaces it was very extensive, since the monarchs maintained, besides their legitimate wives, as many as 300 or 400 concubines (compare Esther 2:14).
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Esther 2:3:
1 Chronicles 29:1
Isaiah 39:7
Isaiah 56:3
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