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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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