Esther Chapter 2

• Esther 2:1
  Esther.
• Esther 2:2
  After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
• Esther 2:3
  Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.
• Esther 2:4
  Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Sus...
• Esther 2:5
  and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.
• Esther 2:6
  There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,
• Esther 2:7
  who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Baby...
• Esther 2:8
  He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her ...
• Esther 2:9
  So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai...
• Esther 2:10
  The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who w...
• Esther 2:11
  Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.
• Esther 2:12
  Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.
• Esther 2:13
  Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplis...
• Esther 2:14
  The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house.
• Esther 2:15
  In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the ...
• Esther 2:16
  Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she require...
• Esther 2:17
  So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
• Esther 2:18
  The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal cr...
• Esther 2:19
  Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gif...
• Esther 2:20
  When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.
• Esther 2:21
  Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was broug...
• Esther 2:22
  In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sou...
• Esther 2:23
  This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.
• Esther 2:24
  When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in ...