George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Esther 2:22
Notice of it, from Barnabaz, a Jew in the service of one of them. (Josephus, [Antiquities?] xi. 6.) --- He might also hear some suspicious words. (R. Calom.) (Worthington)
Notice of it, from Barnabaz, a Jew in the service of one of them. (Josephus, [Antiquities?] xi. 6.) --- He might also hear some suspicious words. (R. Calom.) (Worthington)
Verse Esther 2:22. _WAS KNOWN TO MORDECAI_] Josephus says that a Jew, named _Barnabasus_, overheard the plot, told it to Mordecai, Mordecai to Esther, and Esther to the king, in Mordecai's name; and _...
MORDECAI DETECTS A PLOT TO MURDER THE KING. A story of the conspiracy of regicides is set here in both Heb. and LXX, because the earlier mention of it had been cut out. But this insertion is badly mad...
WAS KNOWN. Mordecai sat in the king's gate: the very place to hear all news....
_And the thing was known to Mordecai_ The Targum states that Mordecai was indebted for his discovery to extraordinary linguistic powers, as understanding no fewer than seventy languages! Josephus (_An...
Mordecai's discovery of the plot against the king's life 19. _And when the virgins were gathered together the second time_ Render, _Now when maidens were being gathered together a second time_. There...
E. Sedition Revealed TEXT: Esther 2:19-23 19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate. 20 Esther had not yet made known her kindre...
THE CHOICE OF ESTHER TO BE QUEEN. MORDECAI'S SERVICE 1. He remembered, etc.] LXX has 'he thought no more of Vashti, remembering what,' etc....
GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 2 V1 Later, when the king was not still angry, he thought about Vashti. He remembered what she had done. And he remembered the law that he h...
AND ESTHER CERTIFIED THE KING THEREOF. — Doubtless by this means an increased influence was gained over the capricious mind of the king, an influence which before long served Esther in good stead....
וַ יִּוָּדַ֤ע הַ דָּבָר֙ לְ מָרְדֳּכַ֔י וַ
THE SERVICE OF A FOREIGNER Esther 2:1 Esther's Hebrew name meant Myrtle. It could not have been easy for her to retain her sweet simplicity amid the corruptions of her time, but her Persian name mean...
In this chapter we have a revelation of customs obtaining in the household of the king. We can read them with thankfulness that wherever the purifying forces of revealed religion have operated they ha...
(21) В¶ 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...
The Beauty Contest I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we saw Queen Vashti loose everything for refusing to come to the party when King Xerxes requested her presence! 1. Not only did she loose her crown a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 10. The Book of Nehemiah has shewn us Judah reinstated in the land, but deprived of the presence of God, except as to general blessing, and unacknow...
AND THE THING WAS KNOWN TO MORDECAI,.... But by what means does not appear; the Jewish writers say c, these two men were Tarsians, and spoke in the Tarsian language, which they thought Mordecai did no...
And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told [it] unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king [thereof] in Mordecai's name. Ver. 22. _And the thing was known to Mordecai_] How he came to kn...
And the thing was known to Mordecal, he got hold of the information in some way, as Josephus states, through the Jewish slave of one of the conspirators, WHO TOLD IT UNTO ESTHER, THE QUEEN; AND ESTHER...
ESTHER CHOSEN QUEEN...
ESTHER CHOSEN AS QUEEN (vv. 1-18) We read nothing more as to Vashti, whether she was simply banished from the king's court or killed. But it was four years before the king married a queen to take Va...
21-23 Good subjects must not conceal any bad design they know of against the prince, or the public peace. Mordecai was not rewarded at the time, but a remembrance was written. Thus, with respect to t...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Esther 2:22 matter H1697 known H3045 (H8735) Mordecai H4782 told H5046 (H8686) Queen H4436 Esther H635 Esther...
CONTENTS: Esther made queen. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Mordecai, Esther, Hegai, Bigthan, Teresh, Shaashgaz. CONCLUSION: God sometimes raises up the poor out of the dust to set them among princes. Those...
Esther 2:3. _Gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace._ The polygamy we have hitherto seen is small in comparison of the indulgences of the Babylonian and Persian court. This...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 2:19__ Mordecai happens to be in the right place at the right time to serve King Ahasuerus. This is one of many examples of God’s hidden direction of events, though God is never...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 2:21. BIGTHAN] Probably the same as _Bigtha_ (Esther 1:10). Called _Bigthana_ in Esther 6:2. WHICH KEPT THE DOOR] Lit., _guards of the threshold_. Being doorkeepers, like Morde...
EXPOSITION MORDECAI'S DISCOVERY OF A PLOT AGAINST AHASUERUS' LIFE (Esther 2:19-17). Some time after Esther had been made queen, there was a second collection of virgins at Susa (verse 19), under circu...
And so, after these things, the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, and he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. Then said the king's servant that ministered un...
Acts 23:12; Ecclesiastes 10:20; Esther 6:1; Esther 6:2; Philippians
ESTHER, THE JEWISH QUEEN Esther 2:17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS "God works in a mysterious way His wonders to perform." The eye of God had beheld a growing antagonism against His people, Israel, during t...