Esther 2:11

And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house to know how Esther did, and what would become of her.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

In Context

10Esther had not made known her people nor her kindred, for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.

12Now when the turn of every maiden came to go in to king Ahasuerus, after it had been done to her according to the law for the women twelve months (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, [namely], six months with

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Cross References

1 Samuel 17:18And bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand. And look how thy brothers fare, and take their pledge.

Acts 15:36And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, After returning, surely we could help our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, how they fare.

Matthew Henry on Esther 2:2-21

Esther's Advancement; Esther Chosen Queen. ( b. c. 514.) 1 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. 2 Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king: 3 And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of… Read the whole commentary →

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