Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Esther 2:21
Conspiracies inside the palace were ordinary occurrences in Persia. Xerxes was ultimately murdered by Artabanus, the captain of the guard, and Aspamitras, a chamberlain and eunuch.
Conspiracies inside the palace were ordinary occurrences in Persia. Xerxes was ultimately murdered by Artabanus, the captain of the guard, and Aspamitras, a chamberlain and eunuch.
Verse Esther 2:21. _MORDECAI SAT IN THE KINGS GATE_] Mordecai might have been one of the _officers_ of the king, as the _gate_ was the place where such usually attended to await the king's call. It is...
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...
GATE. Hebrew. _sha'ar =_ the lofty gate of. palace, not the same word as "door", Esther 2:21; Esther 6:2. DOOR. threshold. Hebrew. _saph._...
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...
_In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate_ The main course of the story is thus resumed from Esther 2:19. _chamberlains_ eunuchs. _Bigthan and Teresh_ The former is possibly the Bigtha of...
TWO OF THE KING'S CHAMBERLAINS— These were two great men, who perhaps kept the door of the king's chamber; and, being either incensed at the divorce of Vashti, whose creatures they might be, or at the...
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...
_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...
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...
IN THOSE DAYS. — Here the thread of Esther 2:19 is taken up, _“_then I say, in those days — “ BIGTHAN. — Called Bigtha in Esther 1:10; Bigthana in Esther 6:2. SOUGHT TO LAY HAND ON THE KING. — It is...
בַּ † יָּמִ֣ים הָ הֵ֔ם וּ מָרְדֳּכַ֖י...
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...
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 (n) hand on the king Ahasuerus. ...
CHAPTER II. Bagathan, or Bagatha and Thara, chap. xii. 1. One of the chief counsellors was called Bagatha. (Haydock) --- But these two were porters, (Calmet) or guards, of the king, (Septuagint; Grot...
(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...
IN THOSE DAYS, WHILE MORDECAI SAT IN THE KING'S GATE,.... Being, as before observed, an officer at court: TWO OF THE KING'S CHAMBERLAINS, BIGTHAN AND TERESH, OF THOSE THAT KEPT THE DOOR; of the inner...
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. Ver....
_Two of the king's chamberlains_ “These were two great men, who perhaps kept the door of the king's bed-chamber, and being either incensed at the divorce of Vashti, whose creatures they were, or at th...
In those days, while Mordecal sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, guardians of the threshold, watchmen of the palace, WERE WROTH A...
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...
BIGTHAN: Or, Bigthana THE DOOR: _ Heb._ the threshold...
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...
WHICH KEPT THE DOOR; either, 1. Of the king's chamber. Or, 2. Of his court; and so they sat in the gate, as Mordecai did, who by that means contracting some familiar acquaintance with them, might ma...
Esther 2:21 days H3117 Mordecai H4782 sat H3427 (H8802) kings H4428 gate H8179 two H8147 kings H4428 eunuchs...
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...
_Two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh. .. sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus._ TRAITORS Besides flatterers, despots are apt to have traitors and assassins about them, such as Bigt...
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...
1 Kings 15:25; 1 Kings 16:9; 2 Kings 12:20; 2 Kings 21:23; 2
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...