Esther 2:7

And he had a foster child, daughter of Aminadab his father's brother, and her name was Esther; and when her parents were dead, he brought her up for a wife for himself: and the damsel was beautiful.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

In Context

6who had been brought a prisoner from Jerusalem, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried into captivity.

8And because the king's ordinance was published, many damsels were gathered to the city Susa under the hand of Gai; and Esther was brought to Gai the keeper of the women.

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Cross References

Esther 1:11to bring in the queen to him, to + 1:11 Gr. to make her queen. enthrone her, and crown her with the diadem, and to show her to the princes, and her beauty to the nations: for she was beautiful.

Esther 8:1And in that day king Artaxerxes gave to Esther all that belonged to Aman the slanderer: and Mardochaeus was called by the king; for Esther had shown that he was related to her.

Job 31:18(for I nourished them as a father from my youth and guided them from my mother's womb.)

Daniel 1:6Now these were among them of the children of Juda, Daniel, and Ananias, and Azarias, and Misael.

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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