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ES-2:1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was
appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what
was decreed against her.
ES-2:2 Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him,
Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
ES-2:3 And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of
his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young
virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto
the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women;
and let their things for purification be given [them]:
ES-2:4 And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen
instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
ES-2:5 [Now] in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew,
whose name [was] Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei,
the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
ES-2:6 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the
captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of
Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
ES-2:7 And he brought up Hadassah, that [is], Esther, his
uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the
maid [was] fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father
and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
ES-2:8 So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his
decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together
unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther
was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai,
keeper of the women.
ES-2:9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of
him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with
such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, [which were]
meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred
her and her maids unto the best [place] of the house of the
women.
ES-2:10 Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred: for
Mordecai had charged her that she should not show [it].
ES-2:11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the
women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of
her.
ES-2:12 Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king
Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to
the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their
purifications accomplished, [to wit], six months with oil of
myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with [other] things
for the purifying of the women;)
ES-2:13 Then thus came [every] maiden unto the king; whatsoever
she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the
women unto the king's house.
ES-2:14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned
into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz,
the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in
unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and
that she were called by name.
ES-2:15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the
uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come
to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the
king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And
Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon
her.
ES-2:16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house
royal in the tenth month, which [is] the month Tebeth, in the
seventh year of his reign.
ES-2:17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she
obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins;
so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her
queen instead of Vashti.
ES-2:18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes
and his servants, [even] Esther's feast; and he made a release
to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the
king.
ES-2:19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second
time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.
ES-2:20 Esther had not [yet] showed her kindred nor her people;
as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of
Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
ES-2:21 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate,
two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those
which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the
king Ahasuerus.
ES-2:22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told [it] unto
Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king [thereof] in
Mordecai's name.
ES-2:23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was
found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was
written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
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