_AFTER THESE THINGS, WHEN THE WRATH OF KING AHASUERUS WAS APPEASED, HE REMEMBERED VASHTI, AND WHAT_ _ 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._ After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuer... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SAID THE KING'S SERVANTS THAT MINISTERED UNTO HIM, LET THERE BE FAIR YOUNG VIRGINS SOUGHT FOR THE KING:_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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;_ Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew. Mordecai held some office about the court. Besides his ancestors as here mentioned, the Targum on Esther... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 HOUS... [ Continue Reading ]
_ESTHER HAD NOT SHEWED HER PEOPLE NOR HER KINDRED: FOR MORDECAI HAD CHARGED HER THAT SHE SHOULD NOT SHEW IT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MORDECAI WALKED EVERY DAY BEFORE THE COURT OF THE WOMEN'S HOUSE, TO KNOW HOW ESTHER DID, AND WHAT SHOULD BECOME OF HER._ Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house. The harem is an inviolable sanctuary, and what is transacted within its walls is as much a secret to these w... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 T... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Then thus came every maiden unto the king. 'Gynaeceum, the women's apartment, was, in the Susa palace at any rate, building distinct from the general... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on t... [ Continue Reading ]
_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_ _ THAN ALL THE VIRGINS; SO THAT HE SET THE ROYAL CROWN UPON HER HEAD, AND MADE HER QUEEN INSTEAD OF V... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ The king made a great feast, х_ WAYA`AS_ (H6213) _ HAMELEK_ (H4428) _ MISHTEH_ (H4960) _ GAADOWL _ (H1419); Sept... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE VIRGINS WERE GATHERED TOGETHER THE SECOND TIME, THEN MORDECAI SAT IN THE KING'S GATE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN THOSE DAYS, WHILE MORDECAI SAT IN THE KING'S GATE, TWO OF THE KING'S CHAMBERLAINS, BIGTHAN AND_ _ 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._ In... [ Continue Reading ]