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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...
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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....
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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...
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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._...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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E. Sedition Revealed
TEXT: Esther 2:19-23
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And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then
Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate.
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Esther had not yet made known her kindre...
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_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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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בַּ † יָּמִ֣ים הָ הֵ֔ם וּ מָרְדֳּכַ֖י...
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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...
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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...
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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.
...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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ESTHER CHOSEN QUEEN...
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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...
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BIGTHAN:
Or, Bigthana
THE DOOR:
_ Heb._ the threshold...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 15:25; 1 Kings 16:9; 2 Kings 12:20; 2 Kings 21:23; 2
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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...