Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Esther 2:11
Mordecai occupied, apparently, a humble place in the royal household. He was probably one of the porters or doorkeepers at the main entrance to the palace Esther 2:21.
Mordecai occupied, apparently, a humble place in the royal household. He was probably one of the porters or doorkeepers at the main entrance to the palace Esther 2:21.
ESTHER CHOSEN QUEEN. Ere long Ahasuerus longs for his lost queen's comradeship. He is moved to issue a summons throughout all his territories, commanding all fair maidens to appear as candidates for t...
TO KNOW. This was Mordecai's solicitude. All this proves that these events must have taken place before the emancipation made by Cyras (the son of this Astyages, App-57), recorded in Ezr. No such secr...
_walked every day before the court of the women's house_ In later times it would have been impossible for one in Mordecai's position, even though holding some post of humble character about the palace...
B. Solicitude of Mordecai TEXT: Esther 2:5-11 5 There was a certain Jew in Shushan the palace, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, 6 who had...
_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 hare...
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....
AND MORDECAI WALKED, etc.] He apparently occupied a position in the king's household (cp. href='190 3:2'>Est 3:2), and in the apocryphal 'Rest of Esther' (11:3) he is expressly styled a servitor in th...
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...
MORDECAI WALKED ... — Apparently he was one of the royal doorkeepers. (See Esther 2:21; Esther 5:13.)...
וּ בְ כָל ־יֹ֣ום וָ יֹ֔ום מָרְדֳּכַי֙
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...
And Mordecai walked (e) every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her. (e) For though she was taken away by a cruel law, yet he did not cease...
_Court. He was one of the life-guards, chap. xi. 3. (Tirinus) --- This situation enabled him to disclose a conspiracy, (ver. 23., and chap. xii. 5.) as he often went to enquire after the health of Est...
(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 als...
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 MORDECAI WALKED EVERY DAY BEFORE THE COURT OF THE WOMEN'S HOUSE,.... Being one of the court, and in an high post, as Aben Ezra thinks, he might walk there without being examined, and called to an...
_And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her._ Ver. 11. _And Mordecai walked every day_] What marvel that Esther was so...
_Mordecai walked every day_, &c. He might walk there without being suspected, because he belonged to the court, and was a man of some rank; for those that were carried away in Jeconiah's captivity (as...
And Mordecal walked every day before the court of the women's house, as near the royal harem as he dared to go, TO KNOW HOW ESTHER DID AND WHAT SHOULD BECOME OF HER, ever solicitous of her welfare....
THE CHOICE OF VIRGINS FOR THE POSITION OF 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...
TO KNOW HOW: _ Heb._ to know the peace...
1-20 We see to what absurd practices those came, who were destitute of Divine revelation, and what need there was of the gospel of Christ, to purify men from the lusts of the flesh, and to bring them...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Esther 2:11 day H3117 Mordecai H4782 paced H1980 (H8693) front H6440 court H2691 womens H802 quarters H1004 learn...
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...
_Whose name was Mordecai._ MORDECAI Providence opens avenues through which merit may attain elevation. I. Mordecai was kind to his orphan cousin. He brought her up, adopting her as his own daughter....
_And let the king appoint officers _ THE WEAK AND LOWLY Poor, helpless, feeble, may be the earthward aspect of true religion. Beggars shall be taken from the dunghill, to set them among princes. God...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 2:10 Mordecai’s instruction to Esther not to reveal HER PEOPLE OR KINDRED is the first hint of the prejudice against the Jewish people that will be seen in ch....
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 2:11. MORDECAI … BEFORE THE COURT OF THE WOMEN’S HOUSE] This leads us to suppose that he was an eunuch. It is not probable that be would, otherwise, have such access to the ho...
EXPOSITION THE QUEST FOR MAIDENS, AND THE CHOICE OF ESTHER TO BE QUEEN IN VASHTI'S PLACE (Esther 2:1). Vashti having ceased to be queen,
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...
1 Samuel 17:18; Acts 15:36; Esther 2:13; Esther 2:14; Genesis 37:14...