Esther 2:10
8 When the king’s command and edict had been proclaimed, many young women gathered at the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai. Esther was also taken to the palace and placed under the care of Hegai, the custodian of the women.
9 And the young woman pleased him and obtained his favor, so he quickly provided her with beauty treatments and the special diet. He assigned to her seven select maidservants from the palace and transferred her with them to the best place in the harem.
Esther did not reveal her people or her lineage, because Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.
11 And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Esther’s welfare and what was happening to her.
12 In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Esther did not reveal her people or her lineage, because Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.
- KJV
- Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
- WEB
- Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.
- ASV
- Esther had not made known her people nor her kindred; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.
- DARBY
- Esther had not made known her people nor her birth; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.
- BLB
- Esther had not declared her people and her kindred, for Mordecai had laid a charge on her that she should not declare [it].
- ÅB
- Ester hadde ikke sagt noe om sitt folk og sin slekt; for Mordekai hadde pålagt henne at hun ikke skulle si noe om det.
- OTB
- Ester hadde ikke avslørt sin nasjonalitet eller familiebakgrunn, fordi Mordekai hadde instruert henne om ikke å gjøre det.
- B1930
- Ester hadde ikke sagt noget om sitt folk og sin ætt; for Mordekai hadde pålagt henne at hun ikke skulde si noget om det.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Esther 2:20
Esther still had not revealed her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed. She obeyed Mordecai’s command, as she had done under his care.
Read in contextMatthew 10:16
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Read in contextEsther 3:8
Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.
Read in contextEphesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Read in contextEsther 4:13–14
he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.
Read in contextEsther 7:4
For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
Read in contextEsther 2:7
And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.
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