TSK - ESTHER 2

  1  Out of the choice of virgins a queen is to be chosen.
 5  Mordecai the nursing father of Esther.
 8  Esther preferred before the rest.
12  The manner of purification, and going in to the king.
15  Esther best pleasing the king, is made queen.
21  Mordecai discovering a treason, is recorded in the
    chronicles.


VERSE 1
- A.M. 3543.  B.C. 461.  he remembered.
   * Da 6:14-18
- what was decreed.
   * Es 1:12-21


VERSE 2 
 - king's servants.
   * Es 1:10,14; 6:14
- Let there be.
   * Ge 12:14 1Ki 1:2


VERSE 3 
 - in all the provinces.
   * Es 1:1,2
- that they may gather.

  This was the usual way in which the harem, or {seraglio,} was
  furnished; the finest women in the land, whether of high or
  low birth, were sought out and brought to the harem.  They all
  became the king's concubines; but one was raised as chief
  wife, or sultana, to the throne; and her issue was especially
  entitled to inherit.

- the custody.  Heb. the hand.  Hege.
   * :8
- Hegai.  the king's chamberlain.
  {Saris hammelech,} "the king's eunuch:" so the LXX., Vulgate,
  Targum, and Syriac.

- their things.
   * :12-14 Isa 3:18-23


VERSE 4 
 - let the maiden.
   * Mt 20:16; 22:14
- the thing.
   * Es 1:21; 3:9,10 2Sa 13:4-6; 16:21-23; 17:4 Mt 14:6


VERSE 5 
 - Shushan.
   * :3; 1:2; 5:1
- a certain Jew.
   * Es 3:2-6; 10:3
- the son of Shimei.
   * 1Sa 9:1 2Sa 16:5


VERSE 6 
 - Jeconiah.
   * 2Ki 24:6,14,15 2Ch 36:9,10,20
- Jeboiachin.
   * Jer 22:24,28
- Coniah.
   * Jer 24:1


VERSE 7 
 - brought up.  Heb. nourished.
   * Eph 6:4
- Hadassah.
   * Da 1:6,7
- his uncle's.
   * :15 Jer 32:7-12
- fair and beautiful.  Heb. fair of form and good of
  countenance.
   * Es 1:11
- took.
   * Ge 48:5 2Co 6:18 1Jo 3:1


VERSE 8 
 - Hegai.
  One of Dr. Kennicott's MSS., instead of Hegai has Heg‚, as in
  ver. 3.

   * :3


VERSE 9 
 - she obtained.
   * Ge 39:21 1Ki 8:50 Ezr 7:6 Ne 2:8 Ps 106:46 Pr 16:7 Da 1:9
   * Ac 7:10
- her her things.
   * :3,12
- such things.  Heb. her portions.  preferred her.  Heb.
  changed her.


VERSE 10 
 - had not shewed.
   * Es 3:8; 4:13,14; 7:4 Mt 10:16
- for Mordecai.
   * :7,20 Eph 6:1


VERSE 11 
 - Mordecai.
  The apartments of the women are accounted so inviolable, that
  it is even a crime to enquire what passes within their walls.
  A man, says Chardin, may walk a hundred days, one after the
  other, by the house where the women are, and yet know no more
  what is done there than at the farther end of Tartary.  This
  sufficiently explains the conduct of Mordecai.

- walked.
   * :13,14
- how Esther did.  Heb. the peace of Esther.
   * Ge 37:14 1Sa 17:18 Ac 15:36


VERSE 12 
 - A.M. 3546.  B.C. 458.  to go in.
   * 1Th 4:4,5
- six months.
   * Pr 7:17 So 3:6 Isa 57:9 Lu 7:37,38

VERSE 13


VERSE 14 
 - delighted.
   * Es 4:11 Ge 34:19 De 21:14 Isa 62:4,5
- she were called.
   * Isa 43:1; 45:4


VERSE 15 
 - who had taken.
   * :7
- Esther.
   * So 6:9; 8:10 Ac 7:10


VERSE 16 
 - the tenth month.
   * Es 8:9
- the seventh.
   * :1,3 Ezr 7:8


VERSE 17 
 - favor.  or, kindness.  in his sight.  Heb. before him.  so
  that he set.
   * Es 4:14 1Sa 2:8 Ps 75:6,7; 113:7,8 Eze 17:24 Lu 1:48-52
  Bishop Patrick observes, that those who suggest that Esther
  committed a great sin to come at the dignity of queen of
  Persia, do not consider the custom of those times and
  countries.  Every one that the king took to his bed was
  married to him, and was his wife of a lower rank, as Hagar was
  to Abraham.


VERSE 18 
 - A.M. 3547.  B.C. 457.  made a great.
   * Es 1:3-5 Ge 29:22 Jud 14:10-17 So 3:11; 5:1 Mt 22:2 Lu 14:8
   * Re 19:9
- he made.
  We learn from Herodotus and Athen'us, that the Persian
  monarchs were accustomed to give their wives distinct cities
  and provinces for the purpose of supplying them with different
  articles of dress:  one was assigned for ornamenting the head
  and neck; another provided robes, zones, etc.; and the city of
  Anthilla was given to a Persian queen, we read, to supply her
  with shoes and sandals.  It is probable, therefore, that, at
  the desire of Esther, Ahasuerus relieved those cities and
  provinces that had before paid it, from this expense.

- release.  Heb. rest.  gave gifts.
   * Es 9:22 1Sa 25:8 Ne 8:11 Re 11:10


VERSE 19 
 - the virgins.
   * :3,4
- sat in the king's gate.
   * :21; 3:2,3; 5:13


VERSE 20 
 - had not yet shewed.
   * :10
- for Esther.
   * Eph 6:1-3


VERSE 21 
 - Bigthan.
   * Es 6:2
- Bigthana.  door.  Heb. threshold.  and sought.
   * 2Sa 4:5,6; 16:11 1Ki 15:25-27; 16:9 2Ki 9:22-24; 12:20; 21:23
   * Ps 144:10


VERSE 22 
 - the thing.
   * Ec 10:20 Ac 23:12-22
- and Esther certified.
   * Es 6:1,2 Ro 11:33
- Mordecai's name.
   * Php 2:4


VERSE 23 
 - hanged.
   * Es 5:14; 7:10 Ge 40:19,22 De 21:22,23 Jos 8:29
- the book.
   * Es 6:1,2 Mal 3:16



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