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Esther Becomes Queen

1 After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus subsided, he remembered Vashti, awhat she had done, and what had been decreed against her.  
2 Then the king’s servants who attended him said: “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king;
3 and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather all the beautiful young virgins to1 Shushan the citadel, into the women’s quarters, under the custody of3 Hegai the king’s eunuch, custodian of the women. And let beauty preparations be given them.  
4 Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This thing pleased the king, and he did so.
5 In1 Shushan the citadel there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of aKish, a Benjamite.  
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Esther 2:3

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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