CONTENTS
This chapter is a continuation of the history, resulting from the former. Vashti the queen being deposed, Esther, a Jewish girl, is chosen. Mordecai her relation is enabled to make discovery of a treason meditated against the king.
CHAPTER II _The counsellors advise that a selection of virgins should be_ _made throughout the empire, out of whom the king should choose_ _one to be queen in place of Vashti_, 1-4. _Account of Mo...
These events must belong to the time between the great assembly held at Susa in Xerxes’ third year (483 B.C.), and the departure of the monarch on his expedition against Greece in his fifth year, 481...
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...
AFTER THESE THINGS: i.e. in 467. Astyages was now twenty-one. In the seventh year (Esther 2:16); one of these spent in preparations (Esther 2:12). AHASUERUS. See note on Esther 1:1. VASHTI. See note...
Esther 2:1-18. Esther's elevation to be queen 1. _After these things_ Two years elapsed between the council of leading men held at Susa (see on Esther 1:1) and Xerxes" actual departure on his expediti...
II. Promotion of Esther, Esther 2:1-23 A. Search for a Queen TEXT: Esther 2:1-4 1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, an...
_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...
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...
II. (1) AFTER THESE THINGS. — We have seen that the great feast at Susa was in the year 483 B.C., and that in the spring of 481 B.C. Xerxes set out for Greece. At some unspecified time, then, between...
אַחַר֙ הַ דְּבָרִ֣ים הָ אֵ֔לֶּה כְּ שֹׁ֕ךְ
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...
After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he (a) remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed (b) against her. (a) That is, he brought the matter again into...
Suffered. He began to repent. The Persians used to deliberate when warm with wine: but their decrees were not ratified till they had examined them again the next day. (Herodotus i. 133.) --- This was...
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...
AFTER THESE THINGS, WHEN THE WRATH OF KING AHASUERUS WAS APPEASED,.... Which went off with his wine, and so was quickly after, a few days at most, unless this can be understood as after the expedition...
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. Ver. 1. _After these things_] After the wine was out,...
_He remembered Vashti_ With grief and shame, that in his wine and rage he had so severely punished, and so irrevocably rejected, so beautiful and desirable a person, and that for so small a provocatio...
THE CHOICE OF VIRGINS FOR THE POSITION OF QUEEN...
After these things, when the wrath of King Aliasuerus was appeased, when the excitement attending the banquet and the affair of the queen's insubordination had subsided, HE REMEMBERED VASHTI, AND WHAT...
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...
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...
ESTHER CHAPTER 2 The virgins of the kingdom being gathered together, a queen is to be chosen, ESTHER 2:1. Esther, nursed by Mordecai, is chosen to be one of the virgins, ESTHER 2:5; and preferred befo...
Esther 2:1 After H310 things H1697 wrath H2534 King H4428 Ahasuerus H325 subsided H7918 (H8800) remembered H2142 ...
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...
_After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti._ ACTING UNDER THE IMPULSE OF RAGE The king had given full sway to his passion and wounded pride, and treated...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 2:1 The YOUNG MEN were probably the king’s personal household servants (see Esther 6:3). EUNUCH. See note on...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 2:1. AFTER THESE THINGS] How long after the divorce of Vashti is uncertain. It may have been only a few months, or it may have been a year or more after. HE REMEMBERED VASHTI]...
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...
Daniel 6:14; Esther 1:12...